Dell : EqualLogic PS4000XV 1GbE iSCSI SAN Storage System

The PS4000 Series addresses branch office and SMB storage needs with simplified administration, rapid deployment and an affordable price, while providing a full set of enterprise-class data protection and management features, solid performance, scalability and fault-tolerance. With 15,000 RPM SAS disk drives, the PS4000XV array offers the best performance in the PS4000 Series with strong random IOPS performance for branch office deployments. To grow storage capacity and performance for remote office needs, two PS4000 arrays can be combined in a SAN group. To further scale out the SAN, EqualLogic PS6000 arrays can be added seamlessly without sacrificing the initial investment in PS4000 arrays.

The PS4000XV is an intelligent storage array that is designed to provide rapid installation, 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 all components are fully functional. The PS4000XV is designed to be installed, configured, and serving storage in less than one hour. To improve enterprise-wide storage management, the EqualLogic SAN HeadQuarters (SAN HQ) software tool provides centralized performance and event monitoring of EqualLogic SANs across multiple sites, for instance PS4000 deployments at branch offices and PS6000 deployments in corporate data centers.

Offering built-in storage features previously available only to top-tier data centers, the PS4000XV enables best-practice storage for remote, branch-office and departmental deployments. The EqualLogic PS Series arrays include the following enterprise data services and software features with no additional software licensing fees: SAN HeadQuarters, Multi-SAN Historical Performance Monitoring, Auto-Replication, RAID Load Balancing, Complete SAN Virtualization, RAID Load Balancing, Storage Pools, Thin Provisioning and much more.

Product Configurations

• Storage Controllers

Base Model: Single controller with 2GB1 battery-backed cache memory

High-Availability Model: Dual controllers with a total of 4GB1 battery-backed cache memory

• Battery-backed cache provides up to 72 hours of data protection
• Hard Disk Drives
  • Sixteen (16) SAS hot-pluggable hard disk drives
• Drive Capacities 15,000 RPM SAS drives available in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB
• System Capacities
  • From 4.8TB Minimum to 9.6TB Maximum

Technical Highlights

• Volumes
  • Up to 256
• Snapshots
  • 128 per volume / up to 2,048 total
• Hosts Accessing PS Series Group
  • Up to 256 per pool / 512 per group
• Host Protocol
  • Any standards compliant iSCSI initiator
• Operating Systems Supported
  • Windows® 2000 Server
  • Windows Server® 2003
  • Windows Server® 2008 R2, including Hyper-VTM
  • Windows Vista®
  • Windows XP®
  • VMware® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.1/ ESXi 3.5 / 4 / 4.1
  • VMware® vSphereTM 4
  • Citrix® XenServerTM
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
  • SUSE® Linux Enterprise
  • Linux
  • SunTM Solaris
  • UNIX®
  • IBM® AIX
  • HP-UX
  • AIX®
  • Mac OS® X
  • Novell® Netware®
  • Virtual Iron®
• RAID Support
  • Automatic RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50
• Network Interfaces
  • Two (2) GbE copper for I/O, One (1) 10/100 copper (optional management network only) per controller
• TCP Network Support
  • IPv4, IPv6 core support
• Expansion Option
  • Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series arrays in the same SAN group online. A maximum of two (2) PS4000 arrays can be in a group.
• Reliability
  • Optional redundant, hot-swappable controllers
• Redundant power supplies / cooling fans, and hot-swappable 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 (SANHQ) 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: 0.98 (minimum)
• Power consumption: 450 VA, 530 PeakVA (operating maximum)
• Heat dissipation: 1,550 BTU per hour (maximum)
• Power supplies: Dual 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 3,048 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: Sound Power Operating: < 5.8 db LpA @ 20°C
• Air Quality: Airborne contaminant level of G2 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985

Physical

• Height: 13 cm / 5.12 in / 3 EIA units
• Width: 48.26 cm / 19.0 in / 1EC Rack Compliant
• Depth: 55.1 cm / 21.7 in
• Weight: 36 kg / 79.6 lb (maximum configuration)

Regulatory and Environmental Compliance

• Regulatory Model: E03M
• Regulatory Type: E03M003