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.
Open Storage Solutions is a Certified Dell "Enterprise Architecture" Partner. EA partners bring specific storage expertise to your SAN implementation. As a member of the Dell Channel we have successfully installed over 300 EqualLogic SANs. Call us to find out why buying your next SAN from OSS makes perfect sense.
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
- Cross Generation compatibility
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)
PS6000 Storage Arrays
Full-featured, high-capacity systems for best-in-class performance and data availability, a complete range of ipSAN solutions.
PS6000 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 PS6000E 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 PS600X 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.
NEW Features of the PS6000 Series.
- A redesigned controller with:
- Additional (Total of 4) Gb Ethernet ports per controller.
- New faster processor.
- 2x the memory on PS6000E/X/XV models compared to PS5000.
- Solid State Disc Array (PS6000S) for affordable SSD performance.
Software Enhancements
- New V4.1 Firmware adds RAID 6 for all arrays and RAID 5/10 on PS5500E & PS6500E
- Hyper-V Snapshot support in Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition (ASM/ME) in HIT 3.2
- SAN HeadQuarters (SAN HQ) centralized, historic performance & event monitoring.
- Host Integration Tools (HIT) v3.2 improvements including cluster support in SQL and Exchange environments.
All new software features are free for customers with valid support agreements. Existing users should enquire about requesting this upgrade to your local Open Storage Solutions representative.
For more information call 1(800) 387-3419 or contact us. or we would be happy to demonstrate a PS6000 at your location. request demo
A summary of our updated product portfolio can be seen in the grid below.
PS6000E Models - Enterprise performance offering great cost-per-Gigabyte
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 |
16 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SATA drives |
1TB / 7,200 RPM |
PS6500E Models - High-density system for huge capacity and scalability at best cost-per-Gigabyte
Array Capacity |
Storage Controllers |
Disk Drives |
Disk Drive Capacities |
24 TB |
Dual Controller |
48 SATA drives |
500GB / 7,200 RPM SATA drives |
48 TB |
Dual Controller |
48 SATA drives |
1 TB / 7,200 RPM SATA drives |
PS6000X Models - Outstanding performance with large capacity for the enterprise data center
Array Capacity |
Storage Controllers |
Disk Drives |
Disk Drive Capacities |
6.4 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SAS drives |
400GB / 10,000 RPM SAS drives |
PS6000XV Models - High performance for the most demanding enterprise applications
Array Capacity |
Storage Controllers |
Disk Drives |
Disk Drive Capacities |
4.8 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SAS drives |
300GB / 15,000 RPM SAS drives |
7.2 TB |
Dual Controller |
16 SAS drives |
450GB / 15,000 RPM SAS drives |
PS6000S Models - The Very Highest Random read IOPS performance with absolute lowest latency
Array Capacity |
Storage Controllers |
Disk Drives |
Disk Drive Capacities |
400GB |
Dual Controller |
8 SSD drives |
50GB SSD drives |
800GB |
Dual Controller |
16 SSD drives |
50GB SSD drives |