Dell PS4000E User manual

Dell EqualLogic Quick
Reference Guide
PS4000 PS6000/PS6500 PS6010/PS6510
Elevator
Pitch
The Dell™ EqualLogic™ family of iSCSI SANs from Dell is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about
purchasing and managing storage. Built on a virtualized peer storage architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series simplies the
deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments. Its all-inclusive, intelligent feature set streamlines
purchasing, delivers rapid SAN deployment, easy storage management, comprehensive data protection, enterprise-class
performance and reliability, and seamless pay-as-you grow expansion. All EqualLogic PS Series arrays are completely
interoperable, and can be mixed and matched to build tiered storage within a single SAN or across SAN groups.
Description The Dell EqualLogic PS4000 brings data-center-class
IT solutions such as consolidation and virtualization
to remote oce and small medium business storage
deployments. Get the same innovative EqualLogic
virtualized architecture and full software feature set as
previous generations at an aordable entry point.
The EqualLogic PS6000 Series is a line of enterprise-
class midrange storage arrays that delivers exceptional
self-optimizing performance, virtualized server
integration, integrated data protection for key
business applications, consolidated management, and
deployment exibility without compromising data
availability.
The newest iSCSI arrays in the PS Series, the
EqualLogic PS6010 and PS6510 models, add the
power of 10GbE technology to the exceptional
EqualLogic storage performance of previous
generations. They deliver increased bandwidth
performance for critical business applications,
virtualization, storage consolidation and high-
performance data backup and data protection.
Software 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.
Basic Features
Data Management
• Roles-based Administration
• Rapid Provisioning
• Remote Setup Wizard
• PS Group Manager
• Volume Management
• SAN HeadQuarters Multi-Group Monitoring
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
Advanced Features
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
SAN HQ
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-dened timelines
• Manage multiple versions of rmware
SAN HQ helps administrators to:
• Better understand storage performance and
capacity usage over time
• More eectively 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 Conguration
• Volumes Data
Competitors HP EVA, Net App, HP LeftHand, Compellent, IBM
Customer
Prole
• Virtual Server Deployments in branch oces
and Small Medium Businesses
• Departmental storage consolidation
• Simplifying data protection and disaster
recovery at remote sites
• Data center consolidation and virtualization
• Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Oracle and other
critical business applications
• Disaster recovery
• Large-scale SAN deployments
• Data center consolidation and stronger
performing virtualization environments
•
High sequential performance and capacity
for
streaming media and critical business
applications
• Stronger performing data backup and
Disaster recovery
• Scale-out capacity and performance
Qualifying
Questions
If you hear these words, there’s probably a SAN opportunity:
Disaster Protection Backup/Restore issues Remote Replication Redundancy
Exchange, SQL, Oracle “Database”, “Email” Performance Blade servers
1 TB or more of data Server Consolidation Storage Consolidation Medical/HIPPA
College/University Storage Management Virtualization
• What is the project that is driving the need for storage? (What application
or initiative is driving it? i.e., VMWare, Citrix, Exchange, DR, server/storage
virtualization and consolidation, etc.)
• Does your prospect have a current SAN?
o If yes, what is their current storage platform? How many TB of
raw storage do they currently have? Do they anticipate signicant
growth in the next year or two?
o If no, is their data all contained within the servers and/or a direct
attached storage device?
• Is the storage purchase budgeted? Purchase timeframe?
• Is there a compelling event or customer pain point that is driving the storage
purchase? (Lease expiration, warranty expiration, out of disk space, suered a
major outage, improve back-ups, DR project deadline, new application being
launched, etc.)
• What is the solution selection and decision process? Who is involved?
• What other storage solutions are you considering?
• Who is the nal decision maker that will approve the purchase?
• Has the prospect seen a demo? (Event demo, onsite demo, web demo, etc.)
If yes, when/where?

PS series iSCSI storage arrays
PS4000E PS4000X PS4000XV PS6000E PS6500E PS6500X PS6000X PS6000XV PS6000S PS6010E PS6010S PS6010X PS6010XV PS6510X PS6510E
Array capacity 2, 4, 8 or
16 TB
6.4, 7.2, or
9.6 TB
4.8, 7.2 or
9.6 TB
2, 4, 8 or
16 TB
24 or 48
TB 28.8 TB 6.4, 7.2 or 9.6 TB
4.8, 7.2 or
9.6 TB
400, 800
GB or 1.6
TB
4, 8, or 16
TB
800 GB or
1.6 TB
4.8 or 9.6
TB
4.8 or 9.6
TB 28.8 TB 48 TB
Disk drives
8 or
16–7,200
RPM SATA
Drives
16–10,000
RPM SAS
Drives
1 6–15,000
RPM SAS
Drives
8 or
16—7,200
RPM SATA
Drives
48—7,200
RPM SATA
Drives
48—10,000
RPM SAS
Drives
16—
10,000
RPM SAS
Drives
16—
15,000
RPM SAS
Drives
8 or 16
Solid State
Disk (SSD)
Drives
8 or 16
7200 RPM
SATA Drives
8 or 16
–100
GB SSD
Drives
8 or 16
– 10,000
RPM SAS
Drives
8 or 16
– 15,000
RPM SAS
Drives
48 –
10,000
RPM SAS
Drives
48 – 7,200
RPM SATA
Drives
Drive
capacities
250 GB,
500 GB or
1 TB
400 GB,
450 GB or
600 GB
300 GB,
450 GB or
600 GB
250 GB,
500 GB or
1 TB
500 GB or
1 TB 600 GB
400 GB,
450 GB or
600 GB
300 GB,
450 GB or
600 GB
50 or 100
GB
500 GB,
1 TB 100 GB 600 GB 600 GB 600 GB 1 TB
Full hardware
redundancy
Hot-swappable
controllers,
fans, power
supplies, disks
Yes Yes
Network
connectivity
2 Ethernet/iSCSI ports per
Controller for I/O; 1 Ethernet port
for management
4 Ethernet/iSCSI ports per Controller 2 controllers/array; two 10 Gb Ethernet/iSCSI ports per Controller
Chassis 3U 3U 3U 3U 4U 4U 3U 3U 3U 3U 3U 3U 3U 4U 4U
Memory 2 GB or 4
GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB 4GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB 4 GB
Maximum
number of
arrays per PS
Series Group
2 PS4000 arrays 16 PS Series arrays, including up to 2 PS4000 arrays
Enterprise
Data Services Yes, all inclusive with no separate licenses on all PS Series arrays
Top Competitive Advantages Objection Resolution Top Sales Tactics
Easier to buy, deploy, manage, and scale
• All inclusive aordable pricing model – full feature set
at signicantly lower cost
• Intuitive management interface w/ automated
functions to eliminate disruptions and manual
conguration tuning
• Single architecture, scales on demand
Lower product life cycle cost
• Add latest & greatest hardware to your existing SAN
rather than replacing what you bought before
• More performance can be achieved using fewer disks
• With EqualLogic, dierent generations of controllers,
disk sizes, speeds, and RAID levels can be mixed in a
single pool
• No forklift upgrades
Dell tools can recover SQL, Exchange, and VM’s.
• The SQL or Exchange administrator can do full or
partial restores easily and without the help of the
storage administrator
“I need Fibre Channel”
This is usually a performance argument. However,
controller eciency and the number of disks, rather
than the bandwidth of your network connectivity or
type of disk connectivity, are the typical bottlenecks
for most business applications. iSCSI lets businesses
utilize existing skills and network infrastructure to
create IP-based SANs that deliver the performance of
Fibre Channel, but at a fraction of the cost
Benets of iSCSI
• Simplied deployment and management: storage
networks can be set up quickly with minimal eort
• Enables cost-eective, scalable, secure, and
highly-available SANs
• Utilizes existing management skills and network
infrastructure
• Delivers excellent performance
• Provides interoperability using industry standards
• Implemented by the leading server, storage, and
network providers
• Available for 10GbE vs. 4GbE FC
Conduct an on-site demo
• Additionally, challenge competitors to do the same
so prospects can experience the added complexity of
the competitor’s solution
Proposals:
• Dell is cost-eective when evaluating TCO and
comparing competitor’s software and maintenance
costs. Ask for an apples to apples quote including
years 4/5 maintenance costs
• Focus on cost for capacity and performance, not raw
GB and raw spindle
Awards:
Dell EqualLogic PS Series – Winner of 2010
InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award
“Dell EqualLogic SANs subscribe to the concept of
‘Do one thing and do it well,’ and boy, do they do it
well… just blazing fast iSCSI performance and a hugely
scalable design...” - Paul Venezia, InfoWorld
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Solutions Scenarios:
Issue:
Server Management - Consolidation
What type of data storage do you currently
have (SAN, DAS, NAS)? Do you have to
continually add capacity to some servers
while other servers have unused capacity
going to waste? How many servers are you
managing? What type of applications and
operating systems do you have? How much
capacity are you managing currently? How
much growth do you anticipate?
Issue:
Disaster Recovery Requirements
Do you have a Disaster Recovery Plan in
place? What is it? What regulatory/compli-
ance issues do you and your company face
today (SOX, HIPPA)? How are you currently
storing your data at both your Primary and/
or secondary sites, (SAN, DAS, NAS)? What
are the storage capacity requirements at each
location? What size WAN link will be used
between locations?
Issue:
Storage Growth Requirements
How much faster is your storage requirement
growing than your server requirements? What
is your current storage capacity? What is the
estimated storage capacity you will need in
the next year? Are you looking to increase the
size of your SAN, more fabrics and more ports
or just ports, in the next 2 years? What types
of applications and operating systems do you
have? Which applications are mission critical?
What performance requirements
are associated with those
applications? Do you have a
storage tiering strategy?
Issue:
Back Up Complexity
How is your back up done now? How long is
your back up window? How does that aect
your IT sta? How many employees are in
your IT organization? How condent are you
that you can restore data to the way it was
before a crash, virus, bug, upgrade or mistake?
Scenario # 1
iSCSI SAN
Event: When planning for future
capacity growth
Question: would it help if
Player: you
Action: could allow all servers to access
a shared pool of storage rather
than using individual server
resources?
Scenario # 2
Replication
Event: When implementing a Disaster
Recovery Plan
Question: would it help if
Player: a storage provider
Action: could also provide replication
capabilities with no expensive
channel extension equipment,
add-on software, or costly sta
training needed?
Scenario # 3
Scalability (Tiered Storage)
Event: When implementing additional
storage capacity to meet growing
requirements
Question: would it help if
Player: you
Action: could physically and logically com-
bine arrays to congure storage
pools or tiers to optimize perfor-
mance and capacity according to
application-specic demands?
Scenario # 4
Back up & Recovery
Event: To shorten back up windows
Question: would it help if
Player: you
Action: could take Snapshots of your
data to virtually eliminate the
back up window along with hav-
ing the ability to instantaneously
restore your data?