PS 4000E
PS 4000E
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.
The PS4000 Series addresses branch office and SMB storage needs with simplified administration, rapid deployment and an affordable price, while providing a full set of enterprise-class data protection and management features, solid performance, scalability and fault-tolerance. 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. To further scale out the SAN, EqualLogic PS6000 arrays can be added seamlessly without sacrificing the initial investment in PS4000 arrays.
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. The PS4000E is designed to be installed, configured, and serving storage in less than one hour. To improve enterprise-wide storage management, the EqualLogic SAN HeadQuarters software tool provides centralized performance and event monitoring of EqualLogic SANs across multiple sites, for instance PS4000 deployments at branch offices and PS6000 deployments in corporate data centers.
Offering built-in storage features previously available only to top-tier data centers, the PS4000E enables best-practice storage for remote, branch-office and departmental deployments. The EqualLogic PS Series arrays include the following enterprise data services and software features with no additional software licensing fees: SAN HeadQuarters Multi-SAN Historical Performance Monitoring, Auto-Replication, RAID Load Balancing, Complete SAN Virtualization, RAID Load Balancing, Storage Pools, Thin Provisioning and much more.
PS4000E Highlights:
Storage Controllers
Base Model:
Single controller with 2GB1 battery-backed cache memory
High-Availability Model:
Dual controllers with a total of 4GB1 battery-backed cache memory
Battery-backed cache provides up to 72 hours of data protection
Hard Disk Drives
Eight (8) or sixteen (16) SATA hot-pluggable hard disk drives
Drive Capacities
7,200 RPM SATA II drives available in 250GB1, 500GB1, or 1TB1
System Capacities
2TB1 using eight (8) 250GB1 SATA disk drives
4TB1 using sixteen (16) 250GB1 SATA disk drives
8TB1 using sixteen (16) 500GB1 SATA disk drives
16TB1 using sixteen (16) 1TB1 SATA disk drives
Technical Highlights
Volumes
Up to 256
Snapshots
128 per volume / up to 2,048 total
Hosts Accessing PS Series Group
Up to 128 per pool / 256 per group
Host Protocol
Any standards compliant iSCSI initiator
Operating Systems Supported
Windows® 2000 Server
Windows Server® 2003
Windows Server® 2008 R2, including Hyper-VTM
Windows Vista®
Windows XP®
VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / 4 / ESXi 3.5
VMware® vSphereTM 4
Citrix® XenServerTM
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
SUSE® Linux Enterprise
Linux
SunTM Solaris
UNIX®
IBM® AIX
HP-UX
AIX®
Mac OS® X
Novell® Netware®
Virtual Iron®
RAID Support
Automatic RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50
Network Interfaces
Two (2) GbE copper for I/O, One (1) 10/100 copper (optional management network only) per controller
TCP Network Support
IPv4, IPv6 core support
Expansion Option
Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series online. Only two (2) PS4000 arrays can be in a group. For more details, please see the release notes.
Reliability
Optional redundant and hot-swappable controllers
Redundant power supplies / cooling fans, and disks
Individual disk drive slot power control
Depth: 55.1 cm / 21.7 in
Weight: 36 kg / 79.6 lb (maximum configuration)
