Why iSCSI? / Why EqualLogic?
iSCSI SANs have caused a fundamental shift in how customers think about their storage environment. iSCSI has been universally embraced as a trusted storage solution for today's organizations enabling all the benefits of Fibre Channel, such as consolidation, reliable backup and restore and disaster recovery capabilities, at a fraction of the cost.
Based on a vision of "simplifying networked storage," EqualLogic's peer storage architecture combines advanced software features with fully-redundant, hot-swappable hardware, integrated in a modular chassis design. This architecture delivers an affordable, enterprise-class storage system that is easy to manage and always available.
Benefits of EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Storage Solutions:
- Simpler management and reduced administrative overhead
- Scalability with better performance
- Integration with leading server vendors such as Microsoft (Windows Server 2003)
- Efficient Backup and Recovery operations
- Affordable disaster recovery solutions
Data services
- Auto-replication
- Automatic load balancing
- Auto-snapshot Manager
- Auto-stat Disk Monitoring System
- Multi-path I/O2
- PS Group Manager
- Snapshot and Auto-Replication Scheduler
- Storage virtualization
- Volume cloning
- Volume management
- Volume snapshot - (Up to 512 per volume, read-only and read/write)
PS5000 Storage Arrays
Full-featured, high-capacity systems for best-in-class performance and data availability, a complete range of ipSAN solutions.
PS5000 Storage Arrays are available in configurations starting at 2TB and ranging up to 16Tb, raw capacity, within a 3U enclosure. That's just a single box starting point, systems expand easily with addition enclosures and the growth path is simplicity itself with automatic load balancing between enclosures as the total number increases. Additionally the performance also scales as more storage controllers and network connections are added.
The PS5000E is an enterprise SAN serving up best-in-class performance providing both primary and secondary storage for database, email, print & file and Web services applications. The PS500X and XV versions provide the very best in performance levels by adding advanced SAS enterprise class disk technology utilizing 10k and 15k rpm spindle speeds.
For more information call 1(800) 387-3419 or contact us. or we would be happy to demonstrate a PS5000 at your location. request demo
A summary of our updated product portfolio can be seen in the grid below.
PS5000E Models
Array Capacity |
Storage Controllers |
Disk Drives |
Disk Drive Capacities |
2 TB |
Single Controller |
8 SATA drives |
250GB / 7,200 RPM |
4 TB |
Single Controller |
16 SATA drives |
250GB / 7,200 RPM |
4 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SATA drives |
250GB / 7,200 RPM |
8 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SATA drives |
500GB / 7,200 RPM |
12 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SATA drives |
750GB / 7,200 RPM |
16 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SATA drives |
1TB / 7,200 RPM |
PS5000X Models
Array Capacity |
Storage Controllers |
Disk Drives |
Disk Drive Capacities |
6.4 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SAS drives |
400GB / 10,000 RPM SAS drives |
PS5000XV Models
Array Capacity |
Storage Controllers |
Disk Drives |
Disk Drive Capacities |
2.3 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SAS drives |
146GB / 15,000 RPM SAS drives |
4.8 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SAS drives |
300GB / 15,000 RPM SAS drives |