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Latest EqualLogic News

  • How Thin Provisioning with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI Storage Arrays Simplifies Management
    Thin provisioning is designed to address the storage management and capacity planning challenges posed by fast-growing enterprise applications. This article explores how a thin provisioning strategy using Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays can help increase storage utilization rates, improve staff productivity, and reduce costs.
  • Business Continuity for SMBs with EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI Storage Arrays
    Robust business continuity has historically been out of reach for small and medium businesses (SMBs) because it was often too costly and overly complicated. EqualLogic® PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays enable organizations of all sizes to deploy an enterprise-level storage infrastructure offering comprehensive data and application protection.
  • Flexible Virtualization with EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI Storage Arrays
    The advent of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) technology, combined with the latest in server virtualization software, can offer enhanced capabilities and benefits to enterprises of all sizes. This article provides guidance on building a virtualized infrastructure with EqualLogic® PS Series iSCSI storage arrays and VMware® virtualization software.
  • Integrating Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosures with Dell EqualLogic SANs
    The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e modular blade enclosure offers a number of advantages over typical rack-mounted servers, including increased density, rapid deployment, reduced power and cooling requirements, reduced cabling, simplified management, and an advanced integrated I/O module architecture. Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays, meanwhile, can also offer compelling benefits that make them well suited to support blade server deployments.Administrators can take any of several approaches to integrating PowerEdge M1000e enclosures with an EqualLogic SAN using the available Ethernet I/O modules—the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch (CBS) 3130G, Cisco CBS 3030X, and Dell PowerConnect™ M6220 switch—in the PowerEdge M1000e. One possible design consists of a multitiered Ethernet switch infrastructure, in which the EqualLogic SAN and a set of external switches are on one tier and the PowerEdge M1000e enclosures are on a separate tier. A second design uses the PowerEdge M1000e pass-through I/O modules with a set of external stackable switches such as the Cisco Catalyst 3750-E or Dell PowerConnect 6248. A third design relies only on the PowerEdge M1000e Ethernet switch I/O modules for the SAN.Each of these three strategies has its own trade-offs in cost, performance, complexity, and scalability. Ultimately, successful integration of a PowerEdge M1000e with an EqualLogic SAN hinges on a few criteria: the solution should provide full redundancy; enough inter-switch bandwidth to support hosting SAN traffic, inter-array management, and load balancing; and enough I/O and minimal latency between the blades and arrays to meet the requirements of the attached host applications. The PowerEdge M1000e enclosure along with external Ethernet switches can provide the flexibility and scalability necessary to build a high-performance virtualized storage architecture that can meet almost any storage need.
  • Boosting SAN Performance with Dell EqualLogic PS6000S Solid-State Drive Arrays
    As online transaction processing (OLTP) and other key enterprise applications take on increasing workloads, administrators are pressed to find ways of handling the performance demands on their storage systems. Traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) have built-in performance characteristics such as seek time and rotational latency that can make it difficult to keep up with escalating needs from transaction-intensive applications.A new option now available for Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage is solid-state drive (SSD) technology. SSDs offer exceptional performance—enabling significantly faster random read/write response time compared with traditional mechanical HDDs—along with enhanced reliability, energy efficiency, and space efficiency. To help organizations take advantage of SSD technology, the Dell EqualLogic PS6000S storage array provides outstanding performance in a cost-effective SSD-based array that can easily integrate into multitiered EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs).Although SSDs can offer dramatic performance advantages, their cost and capacity limitations make them most effective when deployed as a targeted solution in particular use cases. For example, SSDs can be a key solution for workloads that require low latency and high IOPS combined with limited capacity (such as virtual desktop infrastructure deployments), and those in which the transfer block size is small (such as OLTP applications). In a tiered storage environment, SSDs enable IT organizations to provide a customized balance of cost-effective capacity and performance with exceptional throughput and response time.SSDs have emerged as an excellent high-performance storage option for certain enterprise workloads. As part of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of virtualized storage arrays, the EqualLogic PS6000S SSD array can help organizations simply, scalably, and cost-effectively meet escalating application performance demands with enhanced reliability and energy efficiency.
  • Implementing Enterprise-Wide Data Protection with Dell EqualLogic SANs and Microsoft DPM 2007
    In 24/7 production environments, advanced backup and recovery features can be critical to minimizing downtime. Combining Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 and Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays can provide an efficient and cost-effective way for enterprises of all sizes to implement comprehensive, enterprise-wide data protection.
  • Inside the EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI Storage Arrays
    Built on a patented peer storage architecture, the EqualLogic® PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offers high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of a single pool of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment, ease of management, and comprehensive data protection.
  • High-Density, Highly Scalable Storage: Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SANs
    The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) array allows organizations to simply and cost-effectively deploy high-density, highly scalable, and consolidated SANs for tiered storage, primary and secondary applications, and disaster recovery operations.
  • How Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition Helps Protect Virtual Environments
    Protecting and restoring virtual machines (VMs) can be slow and inefficient, and can take precious server resources away from critical applications. Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs—helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.
  • Extending Benefits of Virtual Remote Desktops Using VMware and Dell EqualLogic SANs
    Virtualization can offer increased scalability, reliability, and availability while helping simplify management and reduce operating costs. Now, Virtual Remote Desktop solutions based on VMware® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and virtualized Dell™ EqualLogic™ Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs) can offer similar benefits for the desktop environment—helping reduce the traditional cost and complexity of managing physical laptops, desktops, and workstations.
  • Automated Disaster Recovery with VMware SRM and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs
    Virtualized IT infrastructures can simplify management and facilitate business continuity while helping minimize power consumption and procurement costs. Virtualization also helps organizations automate disaster recovery plans. Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) software provide integrated, cost-effective, automated site recovery and testing for enterprise data centers.
  • Application-Aware Data Protection with Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager
    Creating application-consistent point-in-time data snapshots at the storage area network level can work well in traditional environments, but can also be a complex, manual process. Dell EqualLogic™ Auto-Snapshot Manager allows IT administrators to quickly and easily create and restore snapshots, clones, and replicas at the application level—helping simplify data management, reduce business disruption, and improve data integrity.
  • Streamlining Data Management with CommVault Simpana and Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SANs
    Ongoing data growth can present major challenges for IT organizations. The combination of CommVault® Simpana® backup-to-disk software and Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays can provide a simplified, scalable, cost-effective way to gain control over enterprise data and create a platform to support future growth.

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