Dell Equallogic PS6500E 24 bay iSCSI Storage Arrays

Dell’s EqualLogic PS6500E virtualized architecture combines with dense SATA package for affordable, enterprise-capable tiered storage. Like the rest of the EqualLogic product family, it combines combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless scalability.

The PS6500E delivers the lowest cost-per-gigabyte in the EqualLogic family with up to 48 TB of SATA storage in a high-density 4U chassis. A PS Series SAN built with PS6500E arrays can scale up to 576 TB under a single, intuitive management interface. The PS6000 line features a re-designed controller with a fourth Gigabit Ethernet port that can deliver improved sequential read and write performance compared to previous generations.

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 — preventing 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.

Dell’s portfolio of EqualLogic arrays are 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, triple fan trays and power supplies, and disk drives with hot spares.

With built-in storage features once available only to top-tier data centers, the PS6500E enables best practice storage for every size organization. The EqualLogic PS Series arrays include automatic load balancing, snapshots and replication, Microsoft application integration, hypervisor-aware snapshots for VMware, multi-path I/O, consistency sets, and much more.

Product Configurations

Storage Controllers
Dual controller with 4GB battery-backed cache memory
Battery-backed cache provides up to 72 hours of data protection
Hard Disk Drives
Forty-eight (48) SATA hot-pluggable hard disk drives
Drive Capacities
7,200 RPM SATA II drives available in 500GB,¹ or 1TB¹
System Capacities
24TB¹ using forty-eight (48) 500GB¹ SATA disk drives
48TB¹ using forty-eight (48) 1TB¹ SATA disk drives

Technical Highlights

Volumes
Up to 1,024
Snapshots
512 per volume / up to 10,000 total
Hosts Accessing PS Series Group
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^™
- VMware^® ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / ESXi 3.5
- Citrix^® XenSource^™
- Red Hat^® Enterprise Linux^®
- SUSE^® Linux Enterprise
- Linux
- Sun^TM Solaris^™
- UNIX^®
- IBM^® AIX
- HP-UX^®
- Mac OS^® X
- Novell^® Netware^®
RAID Support
Automatic RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50
GbE Network Interfaces
Four (4) copper
TCP Network Support
IPv4, IPv6 core support including JITC
Expansion Option
Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series arrays in the same SAN group online

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: 1400 VA, 1,400 PeakVA (operating maximum)
Heat dissipation: 3,400 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: 81 cm / 31.9 in
Weight: 74.8 kg / 165 lb (maximum configuration)

Dell ProSupport

Is a configurable suite of support services that enables you to build a support solution based on who you are, how you use technology, and where you want to allocate your IT resources. We know downtime equals lost productivity and revenue and that storage is the heart of the data center. That’s why Dell ProSupport goes beyond the hardware protection included in the Dell EqualLogic basic hardware service. Do you need full service support or do you have an IT staff—choose between ProSupport for End-User and ProSupport for IT.

Dell ProSupport for End-Users or Dell ProSupport for IT With NBD or 4hr Onsite Response Options Provides: