Affordable entry point to PS Series for remote offices and small medium businesses
The Dell EqualLogic PS4000 Series of virtualized iSCSI SAN arrays are designed to bring enterprise-class features, intelligence, automation and reliability to remote or branch office, departmental and small-to-medium business (SMB) storage deployments.
Overview
What's new
- Self optimized performance and automation to reduce remote office storage administration
- Virtualized scale out architecture ideal for server virtualization and storage consolidation
- Enterprise-class software such as replication included at no extra cost
Features
Powerful Performance
- With up to 16 SATA disk drives per modular array, the PS4000E delivers outstanding capacity value for an entry into midrange enterprise storage.
- To grow storage capacity and performance for remote office needs, two PS4000 arrays can be combined in a SAN group.
Exceptional Ease of Use
- All PS Series storage arrays include SAN configuration features and capabilities that sense network connections, automatically build RAID sets, and conduct system health checks to help ensure that all components are fully functional.
- To improve enterprise-wide storage management, the EqualLogic SAN HeadQuarters software tool provides centralized performance and event monitoring of EqualLogic SANs across multiple sites.
Modular Design with Enterprise Reliability
- To help prevent both under-utilization and over-provisioning, EqualLogic PS Series arrays are based on a virtualized modular storage architecture that enables IT managers to purchase only the storage they need, when they need it.
- The PS4000E includes fault-tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and hot-swappable components, including optional dual-controllers, standard dual fan trays, dual power supplies, and disk drives with hot spares.
Feature-Rich Software Portfolio
- The EqualLogic software portfolio is an essential component of the EqualLogic storage solution. This feature-rich software portfolio can help your organization establish reliable, high-performing interactions with your customers while protecting critical business data.
- The EqualLogic all-inclusive software model gives you the functionality required for a complete SAN solution at one price, eliminating the need to manage software licenses or multiple support contracts.
Specifications
| Number of Hosts |
Up to 512 per PS4000 group, 256 per pool |
| Drive Quantity |
Eight (8) or sixteen (16) drives per array |
| Expansion Option |
Scale out performance and capacity with additional PS Series arrays. |
| Storage Capacity |
Scales up to 32TB of high capacity storage |
| Supported Drive Types |
SATA 7,200 RPM |
| Array Software |
EqualLogic Firmware EqualLogic Group Manager GUI EqualLogic Group Manager CLI EqualLogic Manual Transfer Utility |
| Supports |
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008, 2008 R2 including Hyper-VTM VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.1 / ESXi 3.5 / 4 / 4.1 Citrix® XenSource Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® SUSE® Linux Enterprise SunTM Solaris IBM® AIX HP-UX® Mac OS® X Novell® Netware® |
| GREAT FOR |
Low cost entry point into EqualLogic PS Series Remote site Storage Consolidation: Highest storage capacity in the PS4000 line Simplifying data protection and disaster recovery at remote sites and small medium businesses Easy expansion to enterprise-class SAN with PS6000 arrays |
