PS 4000X
PS 4000X
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 10,000 RPM SAS disk drives, the PS4000X array provides up to 9.6 TB of storage for a great balance of cost-effective performance and capacity. 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.
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. Using innovative data movement technology, all EqualLogic PS Series arrays within a SAN work together to automatically manage data, load balance across all resources, and expand to meet growing storage needs.
Offering built-in storage features previously available only to top-tier data centers, the PS4000X 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.
PS4000X Highlights:
Storage Controllers
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
Sixteen (16) or sixteen SAS hot-pluggable hard disk drives
Drive Capacities
10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 400GB1, 450GB1 or 600GB
System Capacities
6.4TB1 using sixteen (16) 400GB1 SAS disk drives
7.2TB1 using sixteen (16) 450GB1 SAS disk drives
9.6TB1 using sixteen (16) 600GB1 SAS 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, including Hyper-VTM
Windows Server® 2008 R2, including Hyper-VTM
Windows Vista®
Windows XP®
VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / 4 / ESXi 3.5
VMware® 4TM
Citrix® XenServerTM
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
SUSE® Linux Enterprise
Linux
SunTM Solaris
UNIX®
IBM® AIX
HP-UX
Mac OS® X
Virtual Iron®
Novell® Netware®
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
Redundant, hot-swappable controllers, power supplies / cooling fans, and disks
Individual disk drive slot power control
