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"Pretty much everything is included in the price of our SAN, in particular the software used to divide data, create and manage snapshots, replicate data, clone volumes and manage the I/O. Other vendors force you to buy additional licenses for these functionalities."

– Wim Diersen, Financial Manager at Bribus Keukens


What's New in 6.0

  • Announcement Video
  • Synchronous Replication
  • Snapshot Space Borrowing
  • Volume Unmap
  • Volume Undelete
  • Support for SED drives and IPSEC

EqualLogic Array Software, including EqualLogic Firmware, EqualLogic Group Manager and EqualLogic Manual Transfer Utility provides you with advanced SAN functions that automatically virtualizes and optimizes storage resources and provides advanced data protection and SAN management.

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Resources

Dell EqualLogic Array SoftwareDatasheet: Dell EqualLogic Software
Transition to the Data Center Bridging (DCB) Era with EqualLogic PS Series Storage SolutionsWhite Paper: Transition to the Data Center Bridging (DCB) Era with EqualLogic PS Series Storage Solutions
Data Center Bridging: Extending Network StandardsCoffee Break: Data Center Bridging
EqualLogic Load BalancingEqualLogic Load Balancing Part 1 | Part 2
Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array: Understanding Synchronous Replication (SyncRep)Tech Report: Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array: Understanding Synchronous Replication (SyncRep)

What's New in SAN HQ 2.5

  • SAN Assist, automatic diagnostic data collection and transmission to Dell Support to expedite resolution of issues
  • SAN Assist proactively monitors health of systems, reduces manual steps from entire support cycle where possible and minimizes customer involvement in problem resolution
  • Support for EqualLogic Array Software 6.0 including Synchronous Replication, Snapshot Space Borrowing, Volume Undelete and Volume Unmap

SAN Headquarters (SAN HQ) provides consolidated performance and robust event monitoring of multiple virtualized EqualLogic SAN groups distributed across different data centers. SAN HQ helps IT managers enjoy a well-tuned EqualLogic SAN to meet and surpass their business SLAs.

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Resources

Dell EqualLogic SAN HeadQuarters Dell EqualLogic SAN HeadQuarters
Dell EqualLogic Software Datasheet: Dell EqualLogic Software
Advancing storage management efficiency and dynamic data protection Article: Advancing storage management efficiency
Advanced Storage Monitoring Tools Increase Uptime & Reduce Costs Coffee Break: Advanced Storage Monitoring Tools
Increase Uptime & Reduce Costs
Optimizing Storage Performance and Capacity in the Virtualized Data Center: Dell’s SAN HeadQuarters White Paper: Optimizing Storage Performance and
Capacity in the Virtualized Data Center: Dell’s SAN HQ
SAN HQ Demo SAN HQ Demo
Advanced Storage Monitoring Tools Increase Uptime & Reduce Costs Dell EqualLogic PS Series Architecture: Snapshot Space Borrowing Overview

What's New in HIT/Microsoft 4.5

  • Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition (ASM/ME) for Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS)
  • Enhancements to Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition(ASM/ME)
  • Centralized configuration of MPIO on multiple hosts
  • Centralized view of volumes, collections, schedules, and smart copies for all the hosts in the HIT Group
  • Single Sign-on for PowerShell
  • Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft SQL Server 2012
  • Support for new EqualLogic Array Software 6.0 features

EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Microsoft® tightly integrate the EqualLogic PS Series arrays with Microsoft host operating platform and host applications enabling consistent data protection, performance optimization and streamlined management and operation.

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Resources

EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Microsoft EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Microsoft
Overview | What's new in version 4.0
Data Sheet: Dell EqualLogic HIT Software Data Sheet: Dell EqualLogic Software
Article: Integrated, automated storage management with PowerShell scripting Article: Integrated, automated storage
management with PowerShell scripting
Fact Sheet: Five Reasons to Consolidate Your Microsoft Application Storage on Dell EqualLogic PS Series Fact Sheet: Five reasons to consolidate your
Microsoft application storage on EqualLogic PS series
Solution Brief: Auto-Snapshot Manager/ Microsoft® Edition for Hyper-V Solution Brief: Auto-Snapshot Manager/
Microsoft Edition for Hyper-V
Solution Brief: Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition for Microsoft Exchange 2010 Solution Brief: Auto-Snapshot Manager/
Microsoft Edition for Microsoft Exchange 2010
Quick recovery and advanced data protection for Microsoft SQL Server with Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager for Microsoft (ASM/Microsoft) v4.0  Solution Brief: Advanced data protection for
Microsoft SQL Server with EqualLogic
Auto-Snapshot Manager for Microsoft v4.0
White Paper: EqualLogic Snapshots and Clones: Best Practices and Sizing GuidelinesWhite Paper: EqualLogic Snapshots and Clones:
Best Practices and Sizing Guidelines

What's New in HIT/VMware 3.5

  • Centralized data protection and efficient management of multiple EqualLogic groups from vCenter
  • Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) 3.5 for VMware, a vCenter plugin that includes Multi-group management, Auto-Snapshot Manager, Datastore management, and Virtual Desktop Deployment features, and vSphere Storage APIs (VASA) Provider
  • Multipath I/O (MPIO)
  • Storage Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRA SRM 2.2)

EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for VMware® tightly integrate the EqualLogic PS Series arrays with VMware host operating platform enabling consistent data protection, performance optimization and streamlined management and operation.

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Resources

Better Together: Optimizing VMware vSphere deployments with Dell's EqualLogic Integration ToolsBetter Together: Optimizing VMware vSphere deployments with Dell's EqualLogic Integration Tools
Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for VMware Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for VMware
Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit VMware Edition (HIT/VE) Desktop Deployment Tool EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit VMware Edition
(HIT/VE) Desktop Deployment Tool
Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit VMware Edition (HIT/VE) Auto-Snapshot Manager 3.0 EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit VMware Edition
(HIT/VE) Auto-Snapshot Manager 3.0
Data Sheet: Dell EqualLogic Software Data Sheet: Dell EqualLogic Software
Solution Brief: Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition Solution Brief: Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition
Solution Brief: Optimize virtualization deployments with Dell EqualLogic virtualized storage and VMware vSphere 5 Solution Brief: Optimize virtualization deployments with
EqualLogic virtualized storage and VMware vSphere 5

What's New in HIT/Linux 1.2

  • EqualLogic Volume Rethinning Facility (eqlvolume) manages the available storage on thin-provisioned volumes
  • Support for EqualLogic Array Software 6.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 6.2 and 6.3, SUSE, Enterprise Linux Server (SLES) 11 SP1, SP2

EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Linux® (HIT/Linux) provide tight integration of EqualLogic PS Series arrays with Linux® environments for enhanced protection, performance and simplified configuration and administration of EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays.

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Resources

Article: Flexible enterprise storage for high-performance Linux environments Article: Flexible enterprise storage for
high-performance Linux environments
Data Sheet: Dell EqualLogic Software Data Sheet: Dell EqualLogic Software
Solution Brief: Achieving performance, scalability and simple storage management in Linux Environments with Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SANs Solution Brief: Achieving performance, scalability and
simple storage management in Linux Environments with
Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SANs
Tech Report: EqualLogic Integration: HIT/Linux Auto-Snapshot Manager Tech Report: EqualLogic Integration: HIT/Linux Auto-Snapshot Manager
Tech Report: Linux Integration: Installation and Configuration of HIT/Linux Tech Report: Linux Integration: Installation and Configuration of HIT/Linux

Architecture
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Customer Case Studies
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