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PS4000 Storage Arrays Rack Mount Instructions Part Number: F464T Rev. A00

Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide Dell EqualLogic Storage Infrastructure and Solutions

Dell EqualLogic Quick Reference Guide PS4000 PS6000/PS6500 PS6010/PS6510 Elevator Pitch The Dell™ EqualLogic™ family of iSCSI SANs from Dell is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on a virtualized peer storage architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series simplifies the deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments. Its all-inclusive, intelligent feature set streamlines purchasing, delivers rapid SAN deployment, easy storage management, comprehensive data protection, enterprise-class performance and reliability, and seamless pay-as-you grow expansion. All EqualLogic PS Series arrays are completely interoperable, and can be mixed and matched to build tiered storage within a single SAN or across SAN groups. Description The Dell EqualLogic PS4000 brings data-center-class IT solutions such as consolidation and virtualization to remote office and small medium business storage deployments. Get the same innovative EqualLogic virtualized architecture and full software feature set as previous generations at an affordable entry point. The EqualLogic PS6000 Series is a line of enterprise- class midrange storage arrays that delivers exceptional self-optimizing performance, virtualized server integration, integrated data protection for key business applications, consolidated management, and deployment flexibility without compromising data availability. The newest iSCSI arrays in the PS Series, the EqualLogic PS6010 and PS6510 models, add the power of 10GbE technology to the exceptional EqualLogic storage performance of previous generations. They deliver increased bandwidth performance for critical business applications, virtualization, storage consolidation and high- performance data backup and data protection. Software Unlike traditional SANs, the EqualLogic PS Series of arrays come with the software and applications expected from an enterprise-level SAN, at no additional charge — there is no additional software to install or service costs to incur to initiate the data management and protection features for this enterprise-class SAN. Basic Features Data Management • Roles-based Administration • Rapid Provisioning • Remote Setup Wizard • PS Group Manager • Volume Management • SAN HeadQuarters Multi-Group Monitoring Data Protection & Availability • Multipath I/O • RAID 5, 6, 10, 50 • Automatic RAID Placement • Volume Consistency Sets Data Maintenance • E-mail Home • Enclosure Monitoring System • Performance Monitoring • Auto-stat Disk Monitoring System Advanced Features Storage Virtualization • Array Evacuation • Automatic Load Balancing • Automatic or Manual Storage Tiering • Complete SAN Virtualization • Online Data and Volume Management • RAID Load Balancing • Storage Pools • Thin Provisioning Server Management & Protection Integration • Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition • Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition • Automatic MPIO Connection Management • Microsoft VSS and VDS Providers • Smart Copy for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Windows NTFS File Systems, Hyper-V virtual machines, and VMware VMFS • VMware Site Recovery Manager Adapter Data Protection & Recovery • Multi-volume, Writable Snapshots • Instant Volume Restore • Volume Cloning • Auto-replication, Multi-way • Snapshot and Auto-replication Scheduler SAN HQ From a single user interface, SAN HQ lets you: • Monitor multiple EqualLogic SAN Groups • Launch the EqualLogic Group Manager management console for any monitored storage group • Get a consolidated view of alerts • Perform trend analysis, with SAN HQ’s customizable views according to storage manager-defined timelines • Manage multiple versions of firmware SAN HQ helps administrators to: • Better understand storage performance and capacity usage over time • More effectively allocate storage resources by identifying underutilized resources • Quickly be informed of events and potential issues such as latency SAN HQ gathers and reports data on: • Capacity • I/O Performance • Network Data • Member Hardware and Configuration • Volumes Data Competitors HP EVA, Net App, HP LeftHand, Compellent, IBM Customer Profile • Virtual Server Deployments in branch offices and Small Medium Businesses • Departmental storage consolidation • Simplifying data protection and disaster recovery at remote sites • Data center consolidation and virtualization • Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Oracle and other critical business applications • Disaster recovery • Large-scale SAN deployments • Data center consolidation and stronger performing virtualization environments • High sequential performance and capacity for streaming media and critical business applications • Stronger performing data backup and Disaster recovery • Scale-out capacity and performance Qualifying Questions If you hear these words, there’s probably a SAN opportunity: Disaster Protection Backup/Restore issues Remote Replication Redundancy Exchange, SQL, Oracle “Database”, “Email” Performance Blade servers 1 TB or more of data Server Consolidation Storage Consolidation Medical/HIPPA College/University Storage Management Virtualization • What is the project that is driving the need for storage? (What application or initiative is driving it? i.e., VMWare, Citrix, Exchange, DR, server/storage virtualization and consolidation, etc.) • Does your prospect have a current SAN? o If yes, what is their current storage platform? How many TB of raw storage do they currently have? Do they anticipate significant growth in the next year or two? o If no, is their data all contained within the servers and/or a direct attached storage device? • Is the storage purchase budgeted? Purchase timeframe? • Is there a compelling event or customer pain point that is driving the storage purchase? (Lease expiration, warranty expiration, out of disk space, suffered a major outage, improve back-ups, DR project deadline, new application being launched, etc.) • What is the solution selection and decision process? Who is involved? • What other storage solutions are you considering? • Who is the final decision maker that will approve the purchase? • Has the prospect seen a demo? (Event demo, onsite demo, web demo, etc.) If yes, when/where?

PS SERIES STORAGE ARRAYS Installation and Setup Manual PS4000