Dell Equallogic PS6510e Owner's manual

DELL EQUALLOGIC
PS6510E
The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6510E is a virtualized iSCSI SAN that combines intelligence and automation with
fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability,
and seamless scalability. The PS6510E delivers the lowest cost-per-gigabyte in the PS6010 Series with up
to 48 TB† of SATA storage in a high-density 4U chassis. A PS Series SAN built with PS6510E arrays can
scale up to 768 TB † under a single, intuitive management interface. The PS6510 line features a redesigned
2 (two) 10GbE port controller delivering up to 10x the bandwidth per port and 2.5x the bandwidth per array
compared to previous generations1.
EXCEPTIONAL EASE OF USE
The PS6510E is an intelligent storage array that is designed to provide rapid deployment, simple management and seamless
expansion. All PS Series storage arrays include SAN configuration features and capabilities that sense network connections,
automatically build RAID sets, and conduct system health checks to help ensure that the array is fully functional out of the box.
The EqualLogic PS6510E is designed to be cabled, configured, and serving storage in less than one hour.
MODULAR DESIGN WITH ENTERPRISE RELIABILITY
EqualLogic PS Series arrays are based on a virtualized modular storage architecture that enables IT managers to purchase only
the storage they need, when they need it — helping to prevent both underutilization and over-provisioning. Using innovative
data movement technology, all EqualLogic PS Series arrays in a SAN work together to automatically manage data, load balance
across all resources, and expand to meet growing storage needs.
The EqualLogic SAN line is designed to meet and exceed the rugged requirements of today’s data center. The PS6500E includes
fault tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and hot-swappable components — dual-controllers, three fan trays and
power supplies, and disk drives with hot spares.
ENTERPRISE DATA SERVICES WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COST
With built-in storage features, the PS6510E enables best practice storage for top tiered data centers, organizations producing
high-throughput workloads or latency sensitive business applications. The EqualLogic PS Series arrays include the following
enterprise data services and software features with no additional software licensing fees:
MANAGEMENT | PS Group Manager • SAN HeadQuarters Multi-Group Monitoring • Rapid Provisioning • Remote Setup Wizard • Roles-Based
Administration • Volume Management
DATA PROTECTION, AVAILABILITY AND RECOVERY | Auto-Replication, Multi-Site • Instant Volume Restore • Multi-Path I/O2 • Multi-Volume,
Writeable Snapshots • Snapshot and Auto-Replication Scheduler • Volume Cloning • Volume Consistency Sets
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION | Array Evacuation • Automatic Load Balancing • Automatic or Manual Storage Tiering • Complete SAN
Virtualization • Online Data and Volume Movement • RAID Load Balancing • Storage Pools • Thin Provisioning
MAINTENANCE | Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System • E-mail Home • Enclosure Monitoring System • Detailed Historical Performance Monitoring
SERVER MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION INTEGRATION | Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft®Edition3 • Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware®
Edition4 • Automatic MPIO Connection Management • Microsoft® VSS and VDS Providers • Smart Copy for Microsoft® Hyper-V™, Exchange®, SQL
Server®, Windows® File Systems and VMware® VMFS • VMware®Site Recovery Manager Adapter
FLEXIBILITY WITH LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP
TheEqualLogicPSSeriesarraysrepresentabreakthroughinstorageeconomics,frompurchaseandsetuptooperationandupgrades.
UnliketraditionalSANs,theEqualLogicPSSeriesincludessoftwareandapplicationsexpectedfromanenterprise-levelSANatno
extracost.ThePSSeriesscaleson-demand—andonline—allowingstoragegrowthwithoutdisruptingapplications.Asaresult,
EqualLogicPS6510Earraysprovideexceptionalflexibilityatalowtotalcostofownership.
Whetherconsolidatingadirect-attachedstorage(DAS)infrastructure,migratingdatafromanexistingSANorNASsystem,
streamliningdataprotectionprocesses,orsimplyaddingstoragecapacity,theEqualLogicPSSeriesfromDelloffersafamilyofproven,
high-performance,self-managingstoragearraysdesignedtomeettherequirementsoftoday’scriticaldatacenterenvironments.
1Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in 2009 comparing Dell EqualLogic PS6010Series arrays to PS6000 Series arrays
2Qualified for Microsoft®Windows Server®2003, Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V ™, Windows Server® 2008 R2 including Hyper-V™
VMware®, Linux®and Sun™Solaris™Operating Systems
3Qualified for Microsoft®Windows Server®2003, Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V ™and Windows Server® 2008 R2 including Hyper-V™
4Qualified for VMware® ESX 3.5, ESXi 3.5/4, ESX 3 and ESX 4

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FEATURES DELL™ EQUALLOGIC™ PS6510E
Product Configurations
Storage Controllers Dual 10GbE controllers with a total of 4 GB† battery-backed memory
Battery-backed memory provides up to 72 hours of data protection
Hard Disk Drives Forty eight (48) SAS hot-pluggable hard disk drives
Drive Capacities 7,200 RPM SATA II drives available 1 TB†
System Capacities 48 TB† using forty eight (48) 1 TB† SATA disk drives
Technical Highlights
Volumes Up to 1,024
Snapshots 512 per volume / up to 10,000 total
Host Connections Up to 512 per pool / 2,048 per group
Host Protocol Any standards-compliant iSCSI initiator
Operating Systems
Supported
Windows®2000 Server, Windows Server®2003, Windows Server® 2008, including Hyper-V™, Windows Vista®, Windows Server® 2008 R2
including Hyper-V™, Windows XP®, Red Hat®Enterprise Linux®, SUSE®Linux®Enterprise, Sun™Solaris™, IBM®AIX®, HP-UX, Mac OS®X,
VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / 4, ESXi 3.5 / 4, Citrix®XenServer™, Novell®NetWare®
RAID Support RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50
10 GbE Network
Interfaces Two (2) SFP+ per controller
TCP Network Support IPv4, IPv6 core support
Expansion Option Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series online in the same SAN group; PS6510E can only be in a pool with other PS5500E,
PS6500X, PS6500E and/or PS6510E systems
Reliability Redundant, hot-swappable controllers, power supplies / cooling fans, and disks
Individual disk drive slot power control
Enclosure Monitoring
System
Automatic spare configuration and utilization
SMART
Automatic bad block replacement
Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System (ADMS) to monitor health of data on disk drives
Management Interfaces
SAN HeadQuarters multi-group performance and event monitoring tool SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, Web (SSL), host scripting
Serial console Multi-administrator support
Ability to configure a separate management network
Security
CHAP authentication
Access control for iSCSI
Access control for management interfaces including RADIUS support
Notification Methods SNMP traps, e-mail, syslog
Power
AC voltage: 100-240 VAC ±10% single phase Frequency: 47-63 Hz
Power factor: 0.95 (minimum) Power consumption: 1030 VA, 1,200 Peak VA (operating maximum)
Heat dissipation: 3,500 BTU per hour (maximum) Power supplies: Three 440W dc
Environmental
Temperature range: 5 to 35°C / 41 to 95°F
Storage temperature: -20 to 60°C / -22 to 140°F
Altitude: -70 to 3,000 m operational / -305 to 12,192 m non-operational
Relative humidity: 20 to 80% non-condensing operational / 5 to 95% non-condensing non-operational
Shock: 5 g 10 ms ½ sine operational / 30 g 10 ms ½ sine non-operational
Vibration: Random .21 grms @ 5-500Hz operational / Random 1.04 grms 2-200Hz non-operational
Acoustics: LwA 6.6 Bels
Air Quality: Airborne contaminant level of G2 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985
Physical
Height: 17.5 cm / 6.89 in / 4 EIA units
Width: 48.3 cm / 19.01 in / 1EC Rack Compliant
Depth: 96 cm / 37.8 in
Weight: 74.8 kg / 165 lb
Basic and Optional Dell
Support Services
1-Year Dell Basic Service*: Included with all EqualLogic purchases. For a period of one year – telephone support services during local business hours
excluding local national holidays; service parts shipped via next business day freight method or the next most expedited shipping available in the locality;
access to software/firmware updates.
Dell ProSupport** for IT or for End-Users with NBD or 4 Hour Onsite Options: Direct access to Dell experts, 7x24x365 phone support, collaborative
hardware and software support, escalation support, global Command Center management and monitoring, how-to application and configuration
assistance (Dell ProSupport for End-Users only).
Additional Dell ProSupport** Options include: Keep your Hard Drive (KYHD), Mission Critical, and Dell ProSupport for IT with Enterprise-Wide Contract.
Optional Dell ProConsult
Storage Consulting from Dell** offers a comprehensive suite of assessment, design and implementation services to help customers get the
most from their EqualLogic PS Series product, covering data management, application performance, data protection and cost of ownership.
Dell Consultants can provide practical action-oriented plans, to help deliver specific, predictable and measured outcomes through high-
impact, short duration projects.
†GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating environment and will be less.
* For a copy of the EqualLogic Limited Warranty and Dell’s Basic Service Description write Dell Inc., Attn: Customer Service, 300 Innovative Way, Suite 301, Nashua, NH 03062 USA or see www.dell.com/warranty and www.dell.com/servicecontracts
** Availability and terms of Dell Services vary by region. For more information, visit www.dell.com/servicedescriptions