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"Immediately after we deployed EqualLogic's PS Series arrays we began working on two large cases that required massive document management, and we wouldn't have been successful without the central storage provided by EqualLogic. Moving forward, with the ability to expand the capacity of our SAN, I know we will be able to continue accommodating large document productions to meet the needs of our clients."

– Stephen Taylor, Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP IS Manager

The growth of company file system assets drives an increasing need for storage. But the high acquisition cost, ongoing management costs, and vendor lock-in of NAS appliances is causing companies to rethink their file serving architectures. Many organizations are seeking more effective solutions for sharing file system assets simply and cost effectively using industry standard servers and host operating systems, and leveraging pre-existing in-house backup and recovery processes. With Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays you can:

Protect investment with simple, open systems, standards-based environments
Scale without compromise as storage needs grow
Optimize price/performance costs
Tier storage automatically for maximum performance
Experience high availability
Take advantage of integrated features

Protect investment with simple, open systems, standards-based environments
Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs provide a simple, robust, and cost-effective storage platform for scalable NFS, CIFS, and Netware file sharing solutions. Storage resources are consolidated into an easy-to-manage, tiered pool of storage accessed over standard iSCSI protocols by industry standard file servers, protecting customers from prohibitive pricing models and NAS vendor lock-in. The EqualLogic PS Series integrates into standard networked file serving environments, including Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun.

Scale without compromise as storage needs grow
Expanding your network-attached file systems with additional storage is truly seamless; additional disk and controller resources are automatically brought online without disruption to file servers accessing the consolidated storage pool. Storage performance scales linearly as workloads are automatically load balanced, spreading data across all active disks, controllers, and interface ports.

Optimize price/performance costs
The EqualLogic PS Series SANs are the industry’s most cost-effective enterprise-class networked storage. By coupling the EqualLogic PS Series with industry-standard servers and advanced file sharing software, acquisition and ongoing management costs are dramatically reduced – while still integrating easily with your standard enterprise backup and data protection processes.

Tier storage automatically for maximum performance
File server access to EqualLogic consolidated storage is automatically tiered across multiple RAID levels, disk capacities, and disk speeds. Storage resources are applied where and when needed, automatically optimizing performance for heavily-used file systems and allowing online migration of seldom-accessed file system assets to lower cost resources.

Experience high availability
Dell’s EqualLogic PS Series arrays are built for enterprise deployment, providing 99.999% availability through a fully-redundant, hot-pluggable system architecture. Volumes are RAID-protected, and through the EqualLogic PS Series’ Enclosure Monitoring System (EMS), faults can be quickly recognized, reported, and addressed without downtime. Low overhead snapshots and remote replication simply create a virtually unlimited number of space-efficient point-in-time copies at primary and remote sites for quick recovery from disk or backup to tape.

Take advantage of integrated features
The EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager brings Smart Copy capability to Windows File Systems. Within an intuitive, simple to use, GUI, administrators can easily make rapid, host-integrated snapshots, clones, and replicas of complete storage recovery groups. In the event that a file system needs to be retrieved from a snapshot, clone or replica, Auto-Snapshot Manager provides fast restore capabilities. Collectively these all-inclusive features enhance an administrator’s ability to protect their file systems and ensure that the applications are available to their users.

Microsoft (Windows Storage Server)

Together, Dell and Microsoft provide customers with a powerful, yet flexible and easy-to-use NAS solution that automatically scales as storage capacity requirements increase over time.

EqualLogic PS6000E