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Dell Equallogic PS6000XV

Dell’s EqualLogic PS6000 Series is a line of enterprise class midrange storage arrays designed to provide the storage foundation for the virtualized datacenter and its critical applications. Through its virtualized scale-out architecture and rich software features, the PS6000 Series delivers exceptional self-optimized performance, virtualized server integration, integrated data protection for key business applications, consolidated management, and deployment flexibility without compromising data availability.

Overview

Dell’s EqualLogic PS6000XV is an enterprise-class iSCSI SAN array ideal for organizations looking for the highest-performance tier of hard disk drive (HDD) storage for business-critical applications. The EqualLogic peer storage architecture delivers a self-optimizing SAN that is extremely simple to manage and has an all-inclusive software suite to help reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The PS6000XV uses 15,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives and to deliver high performance for databases and online transaction processing applications.

With a 16 drive chassis full of 600 GB SAS drives, the PS6000X array delivers a 9.6 TB iSCSI storage array built on fully-redundant, hot-swappable enterprise hardware. Scale out capacity and performance by adding additional arrays for a virtualized iSCSI SAN. Built-in software functionality includes SAN HQ Multi-SAN historical performance monitoring, automated load balancing, Microsoft  and VMware  application integration, SAN HQ Multi-SAN historical performance monitoring, snapshots and replication, multi-path I/O, consistency sets, and much more.

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