Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SAN Storage Array 48TB

Dell EqualLogic PS5500E is a virtualized Internet SCSI (iSCSI) SAN that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide:
 

• Simplified administration
• Rapid deployment
• Enterprise performance and reliability
• Seamless scalability

With serial ATA (SATA) disk drives the PS5500E delivers excellent cost-per-gigabyte and up to 576 TBs of high capacity storage.

Exceptional Ease of Use

The PS5500E is an intelligent storage array that provides rapid installation, simple management, and seamless expansion. All PS Series storage arrays include SAN configuration features and capabilities that sense network topology, automatically build RAID sets, and conduct system health checks to help ensure that all components are fully functional. A PS5500E can often be configured and serving storage in less than one hour.

Modular Design With Enterprise Reliability

Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays are based on a virtualized modular storage architecture that enables IT managers to purchase only the storage that is needed when it is needed — helping to prevent both underutilization and over-provisioning. Using patented data movement technology, all Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays in a SAN work together to:

• Manage data automatically
• Load balance across all resources
• Expand to meet growing storage needs

The Dell EqualLogic PS5500E, like all of the PS5000 Series, is designed to meet and exceed the rugged requirements of the data center. The PS5500E includes fault tolerance capabilities through fully redundant and hot swappable components — standard dual-controllers, triple fan trays, triple redundant power supplies and disk drives with hot spares. Self tuning write-back caches are battery-backed and mirrored across controllers for ultimate protection without compromising performance.

Enterprise Data Services Without Additional Cost

The PS5500E has built-in storage features once relegated to top-tier data centers, enabling best practice storage for organizations of every size. Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays include the following enterprise data services and software features with no additional software licensing fees:

Management

PS group manager Rapid provisioning Remote setup wizard Roles-based administration Volume management

Data Protection, Availability and Recovery

Auto-replication, multiway Instant volume restore Multipath input/output (I/O)1 Multivolume, 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 Email home Enclosure monitoring system Performance monitoring