Storage Architecture Solutions
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EqualLogic is the leading provider of iSCSI-based, all-inclusive storage area network (SAN) solutions that enable businesses - from Fortune 500 to small and mid-size organizations - to realize the economic benefits of consolidated, self-managing storage.

Based on a vision of "simplifying networked storage," EqualLogic's peer storage architecture combines advanced software features with fully-redundant, hot-swappable hardware integrated in a modular chassis design. This architecture delivers an affordable, enterprise-class storage system that is easy to manage and always available.

By replacing cumbersome, labor-intensive administrative tasks with automatic, self-managing intelligence, EqualLogic solutions enable fast, flexible storage provisioning and dramatically reduce the time and costs required to manage and maintain a SAN environment - locally or remotely. We work closely with other industry leaders to ensure that our customers experience the highest level of product compatibility and optimization.

EqualLogic Networked Storage Solutions

Data Storage Consolidation

EqualLogic's iSCSI SAN is an affordable, intelligent, easy to manage solution for data storage consolidation.

The Pain of Growth

The unrelenting growth of company files, e-mail, databases, and application data drives a constant need for more storage. But with storage directly attached to servers, growth means burdensome storage management and decreased asset utilization. Storage resources remain trapped behind individual servers, impeding data availability.

Consolidation in a storage area network (SAN) can alleviate much of the pain - but until recently, the only SAN choice was Fibre Channel, which is too costly and complex for most organizations.

EqualLogic Storage Consolidation: Simple, Affordable, Easy

An EqualLogic iSCSI SAN - affordable, based on standard protocols, and easy to deploy - brings the benefits of storage consolidation to all your data. With our fully redundant solution you can leverage centralized storage to gain simpler management, data sharing, and improved availability. A single pool of storage makes allocating volumes easier, and improves backup and disaster recovery. You can grow on demand as your needs change and gain better performance through our unique architecture, which automatically load balances across multiple arrays, disks, and ports. Built-in intelligence delivers the highest levels of performance, scalability, and availability.

Benefits of Storage Consolidation:

EqualLogic supports the following Host vendors for consolidation:

EqualLogic supports the following technology partners for enhanced consolidation solutions:

Products

In less than 20 minutes you can have intelligent networked storage that can be provisioned as needed - simply, seamlessly and without downtime.

Founded on the premise of simplifying networked storage, EqualLogic's PS Series is a family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage arrays that fundamentally change storage economics from purchase and set up to operation and upgrades. All configurations are completely interoperable and upgradeable - performance and capacity scale without disrupting application or data availability.

Enterprise Reliability

Each PS Series array offers fully-redundant, hot-swappable components including controllers, fan trays, and power supplies. Support for RAID 5, 10 and 50, hot drive sparing, automatic failover and rebuild, and patent-pending proactive media error detection deliver 99.999% data availability - or, 5 minutes of planned downtime per year.

Enterprise Performance

Starting with 300 MB/sec and 60,000 IOPS and scaling to more than a million IOPS, the PS Series delivers unmatched performance in its class. Automatic load balancing seamlessly moves data across all active RAID sets, maximizing performance by intelligently optimizing network connections, cache, and controllers in real time.

Enterprise Data Services

The PS Series comes standard with a comprehensive set of software features including virtual volume management and space-efficient snapshots for instant backup and restore, volume cloning for rapid server provisioning, Auto-Replication, multi-path I/O support, and cluster support for comprehensive disaster recovery.

Choose the PS Series array that fits your requirements today with the confidence that you can scale to meet future needs - without a forklift upgrade or application downtime!