IP SAN from EqualLogic

PS Series - Intelligent, Enterprise-Class Storage
Founded on the premise of simplifying networked storage, EqualLogic's PS Series is a family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage arrays that fundamentally change storage economics from purchase and set up to operation and upgrades. The PS family consists of the PS50E, PS100E, PS100X, PS200E, PS800E and PS1600E. All configurations are completely interoperable and upgradeable with performance and capacity scaling from a single TB to over 100TB - without disruption of application or data availability.

Enterprise Reliability- Each PS array offers fully-redundant, hot-swappable components including controllers, fan trays, and power supplies. Support for RAID 10 and 50, hot drive sparing, automatic failover and rebuild, and patent-pending proactive media error detection means bottom line: 99.999% data availability or 5 minutes of planned downtime per year.

Enterprise Performance - Starting with 300 MB/sec and 60,000 IOPS, and scaling to more than a million IOPS, the PS Series delivers unmatched performance in its class. Automated load balancing seamlessly moves data across all active RAID sets, maximizing performance by intelligently optimizing network connections, cache, and controllers in real time.

Enterprise Data Services - The PS Series comes standard with a comprehensive set of software features including virtual volume management and space-efficient snapshots for instant backup and restore, volume cloning for rapid server provisioning, and Auto-Replication, multi-path I/O support, and cluster support for comprehensive disaster recovery.

Choose the PS Series array that fits your requirements today with the confidence that you can scale to meet your future needs - without a forklift upgrade or application downtime!

High-end Performance without Complexity
Equipped with (14) 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptor® disk drives, the PS100X offers more than a TB of high performance storage in a fully-redundant, dual-controller system. The PS100X automatically optimizes array performance without special tuning required, making it a perfect storage system for the intense I/O workloads of enterprise transactional databases.

Comprehensive, Reliable, Proven.
With best-in-class performance of more than 300 MB/sec and 60,000 IOPS, the PS100E and PS200E are full-featured, completely redundant storage arrays that are easy to set up, manage and scale. With capacities including 3.5TB and 5.6TB, these storage systems are proven, reliable storage solutions well suited for database, e-mail, file/print, and Web services applications.

Capacity without Compromise
Designed for organizations that require capacity without compromising performance, the PS800E and PS1600E delivers 22.4 TB and 44.8 TB at up to 1,200 MB/sec and 240,000 IOPS. Like all PS Series arrays, these storage platforms can scale up to 100 TB offering a high-end storage platform for data warehousing, life sciences, large databases, streaming media, and geophysical applications in the mid-sized data center.

The PS Series storage arrays can improve Microsoft applications such as Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft® Exchange® 2003.

EqualLogic® Auto-Snapshot Manager for Windows allows administrators to safely snapshot and restore Microsoft® Exchange® 2003 and Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 deployments running on Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter editions.

Auto-Snapshot Manager integrates with Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to provide application consistent snapshots that leverage the performance and flexibility of the EqualLogic PS Series space-efficient snapshot functionality.

With Auto-Snapshot Manager, administrators can create, schedule, and restore from snapshots. In addition, Auto-Snapshot Manager integrates with leading 3rd party backup software, allowing for application consistent snapshot-to-tape backups.

EqualLogic® Multi-path I/O provides high availability and performance load balancing across multiple network ports (HBAs and/or NICs) for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2000 and Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 platforms.

The EqualLogic multi-path architecture removes all single points of failure from the network to the storage, and can be deployed easily and cost-effectively by leveraging the economics of Ethernet. Best of all, EqualLogic does not charge additional host-licenses for the multi-path software. Therefore, the cost to upgrade a server to highly available is only the cost of an additional Ethernet path.