Today, businesses must able to provide varying service levels for applications on
numerous server platforms. Infrastructure components that support multiple platforms,
deliver advanced functionality, and minimize costs can reduce an IT manager's
headaches by providing a highly reliable, flexible environment.
EqualLogic PS Series arrays deliver highly available SAN services across heterogeneous
environments, including Microsoft Windows, Novell Netware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
SuSE Linux Enterprise, Linux, Sun Solaris, UNIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, IBM AIX, and VMware
ESX.
But SAN integration is only the beginning – to maximize productivity you need advanced
features for storage connectivity, availability, protection, and management. All
PS Series arrays include standard, built-in advanced features such as online scaling,
automatic load balancing, clustering, MPIO and failover, snapshots and replication,
tiering and pooling, thin provisioning, and more.
No matter what platform your key applications depend on, an EqualLogic SAN will
help you deliver a high performance, high availability data environment while reducing
management effort and costs.
Advanced Functionality for any Server Platform
Comprehensive initiator support
EqualLogic supports initiators across all major operating systems. Gigabit Ethernet
NICs and HBAs provide high performance, multi-path access to centralized storage
assets. Boot-from-SAN and virtualized desktop capabilities allow system disks to
be totally removed from distributed server and desktop assets.
MPIO and failover
PS Series arrays support MPIO, failover, and NIC teaming technologies to provide
robust path and controller failover, as well as aggregate I/O bandwidth to meet
even the most demanding workloads.
Enterprise data protection and disaster recovery
Snapshots, clones, and replication are core, built-in features of the PS Series
that protect your environment with low-overhead, low-cost data protection and disaster
recovery solutions.
Clustering
EqualLogic arrays support clustering applications for all supported operating systems.
Simplified management
PS Group Manager, EqualLogic's unified SAN management tool, is a simple, intuitive
storage management and provisioning tool that enables you to consolidate all storage
on the SAN into a unified resource that is easy to configure and manage through
a centralized interface.
Optimized performance
EqualLogic PS Series arrays offer unparalleled performance for any environment.
The PS Series’ automatic load-balancing capability seamlessly spreads data across
all active RAID sets, maximizing performance by intelligently optimizing all available
network connections, cache, controllers, and drives.