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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


The PS Series has built-in storage features once relegated to top-tier data centers, enabling best-practice storage for virtually every size organization. The EqualLogic PS Series arrays include enterprise software features designed to simplify storage deployment, management and offer end-to-end data protection.

Storage Virtualization

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

Server Management & 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 Exchange, SQL Server, Windows NTFS File Systems, Hyper-V virtual machines, and VMware VMFS
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager Adapter

Data Protection & Recovery

  • Multi-volume, Writable Snapshots
  • Instant Volume Restore
  • Volume Cloning
  • Auto-replication, Multi-way
  • Snapshot and Auto-replication Scheduler

Unlike traditional SANs, the EqualLogic PS Series of arrays come with the software and applications expected from an enterprise-level SAN, at no additional charge — there is no additional software to install or service costs to incur to initiate the data management and protection features for this enterprise-class SAN.

Data Management

Data Protection & Availability

  • Multipath I/O
  • RAID 5, 6, 10, 50
  • Automatic RAID placement
  • Volume Consistency Sets

Data Maintenance

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

SAN HeadQuarters (SAN HQ) provides consolidated performance and robust event monitoring across multiple virtualized EqualLogic SAN groups. It gathers and formats performance data and other vital group information for easy viewing and quick analysis of multiple aspects of group performance. With SAN HQ, you have the ability to centrally monitor alerts, get historical performance reporting, and perform trend analysis for capacity planning and troubleshoot.

SAN HQ version 2.0 introduces several feature enhancements that help storage managers analyze configuration, performance, capacity utilization and connections for one or several groups of EqualLogic arrays. This early identification of potential bottlenecks can provide storage managers with the insight needed to enhance performance, increase efficiency, adjust resources to meet business requirements and plan for future growth.

From a single user interface, SAN HQ lets you:

  • Monitor multiple EqualLogic SAN Groups
  • Launch the EqualLogic Group Manager management console for any monitored storage group
  • Get a consolidated view of alerts
  • Perform trend analysis, with SAN HQ’s customizable views according to storage manager-defined timelines
  • Manage multiple versions of firmware

SAN HQ helps administrators to:

  • Better understand storage performance and capacity usage over time
  • More effectively allocate storage resources by identifying underutilized resources
  • Quickly be informed of events and potential issues such as latency

SAN HQ gathers and reports data on:

  • Capacity
  • I/O Performance
  • Network Data
  • Member Hardware and Configuration
  • Volumes Data

Architecture
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Solutions
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Customer Case Studies
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