PS 4100X
The Dell EqualLogic™ PS4100 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 PS4100 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 PS4100X array provides up to 21.6TB1 of storage in a 2U/2.5” drive solution for a great balance of cost-effective performance and capacity within the smallest rack U available within the series.
To grow storage capacity and performance for remote office needs, two PS4100 arrays can be combined in a SAN group. To further scale out the SAN, EqualLogic PS6100 arrays can be added seamlessly without sacrificing the initial investment in PS4100 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 PS4100X 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 (SAN HQ) multi-SAN historical performance monitoring, auto-replication, RAID load balancing, complete SAN virtualization, RAID load balancing, storage pools, thin provisioning and much more.
PS 4100X Highlights:
- Storage Controllers
Dual controllers with a total of 8 GB backup cache data to flash memory for data protection - Hard Disk Drives
Twelve (12) NL-SAS hot-pluggable hard drives. Six (6) drive configuration available. - Drive Capacities
2.5" 10,000 RPM SAS drives available in 300GB and 600GB, 900GB - System Capacities
- 7.2TB using twenty-four (24) 300GB 10,000 SAS disk drives
- 14.4TB using twenty-four (24) 600GB 10,000 SAS disk drives
- 21.6TB using twenty-four (24) 900GB 10,000 SAS disk drives
- Volumes
Up to 256 - Snapshots
128 per volume /up to 2,048 total per group - Volume connections per PS series group
Up to 256 per pool / 512 per group - Host Protocol
Any standards compliant iSCSI initiator - Operating Systems Supported
- Windows® 2000 Server
- Windows Server® 2003
- Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V™
- Windows Server® 2008 R2, including Hyper-V™
- Windows Vista®
- Windows XP®
- VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.1 / 5 / ESXi 3.5 / 4 / 4.1 / 5
- Citrix® XenServer™
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
- SUSE® Linux Enterprise
- Linux
- Sun™ Solaris™
- IBM® AIX®
- HP-UX®
- Mac OS® X
- Novell® Netware®
- RAID Support
RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50 - TCP Network Support
IPv4, IPv6 core support - Expansion Option
Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series arrays in the same SAN group, online. A maximum of two (2) PS4000 and PS4100 Series arrays can be in a group.
- Vertical port failover
- Redundant, hot-swappable controllers, power supplies / cooling fans, and disks
- Individual disk drive slot power control
- Automatic spare configuration and utilization
- SMART
- Automatic bad block replacement
- Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System (ADMS) to monitor health of data on disk drives
- SAN HeadQuarters (SAN HQ) multi-group performance and event monitoring tool
- SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, Web (SSL), host scripting
- Serial console
- Multi-administrator support
- Ability to configure a separate management network
- CHAP authentication
- Access control for iSCSI
- Access control for management interfaces including RADIUS support
- SNMP traps, e-mail, syslog
- AC voltage: 100-240 VAC ±10% single phase
- 700W (max, total), +5V up to 155W; +12V up to 624W; +5Vsb up to 10W
- Frequency: 50/60 Hz
- Power factor: 0.98 (minimum)
- Power supplies: Dual 700 W
- Temperature range: 5° to 40°C (41° to 104°F)
- Storage temperature: -40° to 65°C (-40° to 149°F)
- Altitude: For altitudes above 2950 feet, the maximum operating temperature is derated 1°F/550 ft
- Operating relative humidity: 20% to 80% (noncondensing) with a maximum humidity gradation of 10% per hour
- Operational shock: Half-sine shock 31G +/- 5% with a pulse duration of 2.6ms +/- 10% in operational orientations only
- Operating vibration: 0.26 Grms (5 to 350 Hz) for 5 minutes in operational orientations
- Acoustics Category 4: <=7.2 bels at 23C +/- 2C
- Air Quality: Airborne contaminant level of G1 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985
- Height: 2U / 8.68 cm (3.41 inches)
- Width: 44.63 cm (17.57 inches)
- Depth: 54.1 cm (21.3 inches)
- Weight: 24.49 kg (54 lb)
