EqualLogic PS Series Overview
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EqualLogic PS6010XVS iSCSI SAN

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Dell EqualLogic SAN - Storage Solutions
Transform the way you store and manage data with EqualLogic
Information is at the core of business value. Ignited by the need for real-time data access, enterprise mobility and pervasive virtualization, it’s no surprise that storage growth is expected to accelerate past 60% per year through 2020. On average, essentially doubling every 18 months. As if managing your organizations data growth isn’t enough, doing it on a flat annual budget makes it even more challenging.
Consider the Dell EqualLogic virtual iSCSI SAN. Its seamlessly scalable architecture and intelligent array software natively integrates with your tier-1 application and virtual environments to help you efficiently manage data without adding complexity. EqualLogic’s automation can help save you 45 days per year on common storage tasks and accelerate VM deployments by over 70%. Learn more about why virtual storage is an ideal solution for efficiently managing your data growth.
Storage Consolidation
The Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN brings storage consolidation benefits to all your data - it's affordable, based on standard protocols, reduces operational costs, and is easy to deploy.
- 5 Reasons To make Dell EqualLogic PS Series your storage consolidation solution.
Virtualization
EqualLogic virtualized storage solutions are a perfect fit for virtualized server deployments. PS Series iSCSI SANs fully integrate with the leading server virtualization solutions to enable cost effective shared storage to fully realize all the benefits of moving to a virtual infrastructure.
- 5 Reasons to make Dell EqualLogic PS Series your virtual infrastructure solution.
Data Protection (Backup / Restore / Archive)
The PS Series iSCSI storage arrays include all of the functionality, at no extra charge, to enable comprehensive and affordable backup and restore solutions. Advanced snapshot, clone, and replication features work seamlessly with leading backup vendors to ensure that your data is protected and easily recoverable.
- 5 Reasons to make Dell EqualLogic PS Series your Backup and Recovery solutions
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
With the built-in snapshot, replica, clone, and replication features, Dell’s EqualLogic PS Series SANs enable IT administrators with the technology and tools to build out affordable and easily manageable business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.
- 5 Reasons to make Dell EqualLogic PS Series your disaster recovery solution.

The PS 4000 brings SAN functionality to the SMB space. Affordable and flexible to give you the features, performance, space and power that you need in a SAN, while remaining within your budget.
Features:
- Lowest Cost Model
- 3U, 16 Drive Chassis
- Dual RAID Controllers
- Mirrored Redundant Cache
- Redundant 1Gb NICs, Power, and Cooling
Capacity:
- SATA: 8 - 32 TB
10K SAS: 7.2 - 9.6 TB RAW
15K SAS: 4.8 - 9.6 TB RAW

The PS 6000 allows you to add power, connectivity, and capacity easily. At any time, and without environment disruption you can scale from 1 unit all the way out to 16 units. The 6000 series keeps your SAN costs down - buy what you need - expand later with no hassle or downtime.
Features:
- Power and Scalability
- 3U, 16 Drive Chassis
- Dual RAID Controllers
- Mirrored Redundant Cache
- Redundant 1Gb NICs, Power, and Cooling
Capacity:
- SATA: 8 - 32 TB
10K SAS: 7.2 - 9.6 TB RAW
15K SAS: 4.8 - 9.6 TB RAW






