• 15,000-rpm serial-attached SCSI (SAS) drives and automated load balancing deliver excellent performance
• Simplified storage management lets you get more done
• Combine with other PS Series arrays for tiered SAN with both capacity and performance

Dell EqualLogic PS6000XV

The Dell EqualLogic PS6000XV is a virtualized Internet SCSI (iSCSI) SAN that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, seamless scalability, and enterprise performance and reliability. With 15,000 rpm SAS disk drives, the PS6000XV array provides high transactional performance with up to 9.6 TB¹ of storage capacity per array.

Exceptional Ease of Use

The PS6000XV is an intelligent storage array that provides rapid installation, simple management and seamless expansion. All PS Series storage arrays include SAN configuration features and capabilities that sense network topology, automatically build RAID sets and conduct system health checks to help ensure that all components are fully functional. A PS6000XV can often be installed, configured and operational in less than one hour.

Modular Design with Enterprise Reliability

EqualLogic PS Series arrays are based on a virtualized modular storage architecture that enables IT managers to purchase only the storage that is needed, when it is needed — to help prevent both under utilization and over-provisioning. Using patented data movement technology, all PS Series arrays can work together to automatically manage data, load balance across system resources and expand to meet growing needs. The EqualLogic PS Series is designed to meet and exceed the ruggedness requirements of the data center. The PS6000XV includes fault tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and hot-swappable components — dual-controllers, standard dual fan trays, dual power supplies and disk drives with hot spares. Self-tuning write-back caches are battery-backed and mirrored across controllers for the ultimate protection without compromising performance.

ENTERPRISE DATA SERVICES WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COST

The PS6000XV has built-in storage features once available only to top-tier data centers, enabling best practice storage for every size organization. EqualLogic PS Series arrays include the following enterprise data services and software features with no additional software licensing fees:

Management

• PS Group Manager
• SAN HeadQuarters Multi-SAN Historical Performance Monitoring
• Rapid Provisioning
• Remote Setup Wizard
• Roles-Based Administration
• Volume Management

Data Protection, Availability and Recovery

• Auto-Replication, Multi-Way
• Instant Volume Restore
• Multi-Path I/O
• Multi-Volume, Writeable Snapshots
• Snapshot and Auto-Replication Scheduler
• Volume Cloning
• Volume Consistency Sets

Storage Virtualization

• Array Evacuation
• Automatic Load Balancing
• Automatic or Manual Storage Tiering
• Complete SAN Virtualization
• Online Data and Volume Movement
• RAID Load Balancing
• Storage Pools
• Thin Provisioning

Maintenance

• Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System
• E-mail Home
• Enclosure Monitoring System
• Performance Monitoring

Server Management and 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^® Hyper-V™, Exchange^® , SQL Server^® ,Windows^® File Systems and VMware^® VMFS
• VMware^® Site Recovery Manager Adapter

FLEXIBILITY WITH LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP

Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays represent a breakthrough in storage economics, from purchase and setup to operation and upgrades. Unlike traditional SANs, the EqualLogic PS Series includes software and applications expected from an enterprise-level SAN at no extra cost. The PS Series scales on-demand and online allowing storage growth without disrupting applications. As a result, EqualLogic arrays provide exceptional flexibility at a low total cost of ownership.

Whether consolidating a direct-attached storage (DAS) infrastructure, migrating data from and existing SAN, streamlining data protection processes or simply adding storage capacity, the Dell EqualLogic family of proven, high-performance, self-managing storage arrays is designed to meet the requirements of today’s critical datacenter environments.