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... your warrantee or support agreement.
• Firmware - Installed on each array, PS Series firmware software allows you to manage your storage environment and provides capabilities such as volume snapshots, cloning, and replication to ensure data hosted on the arrays is protected in the event of an error or disaster. For more information: http://www.equallogic.com/resourcecenter/assetview...
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... replication and preventing network congestion.
Host Software for Windows
• Host Integration Tools Remote Setup Wizard (RSW): Initializes new PS Series arrays, configures host connections to PS Series groups, and configures and manages multipathing.
For more information: http://www.equallogic.com/resourcecenter/assetview.aspx?id=5601
Multipath I/O Device Specific Module...
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....dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps1q08-20080252-EqualLogic.pdf How Thin Provisioning with Dell EqualLogic iSCSI Storage Arrays Simplifies Management http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps2q08-20080314-EqualLogic.pdf Application-Aware Data Protection with Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q08-20080394-Doherty.pdf Automated Disaster Recovery...
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... Scalable Storage: Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SANs http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20080396-Locsin.pdf
How Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition Helps Protect Virtual Environments http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q08-20090107-Gilman.pdf Extending Benefits of Virtual Remote Desktops Using VMware and Dell EqualLogic SANs http://www.dell.com/downloads...
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Technical Product Documentation
For detailed information about PS Series arrays, groups, volumes, array software, and host software, see the product documentation located on the EqualLogic customer support site. For more information: https://www.equallogic.com/support/resources.aspx?id=2495
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Technical Support and Customer Service
Dell's support service is available to answer your questions about PS Series SAN arrays. If you have an Express Service Code, have it ready when you call. The code helps Dell's automatedsupport telephone system direct your call more efficiently.
Contacting Dell
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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
Copyright © 2011 Dell Inc. All Rights Reserved. Dell EqualLogic is a trademark of Dell Inc. All trademarks and registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. Possession, use, or copying of the documentation or the software described in this publication is authorized only under ...
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... of one or more data storage devices directly connected to a computer through a host bus adapter (HBA). These devices can be housed in the server enclosure or in an external enclosure that is directly connected to one or more servers. A DAS environment does not have network devices like hubs, switches, or routers. DAS connections primarily use ATA, SATA or SAS block-based...
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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
Both NAS and SAN infrastructures offer viable alternatives for network storage that may be appropriate for hosting multiple virtual workloads in VMware environments. So how do you know which consolidated storage solution is best for you? It depends upon the application, your workload characteristics, and your datacenter...
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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
As storage I/O requests are received, the hypervisor either leverages the storage subsystem drivers or the network subsystem drivers to establish and maintain a connection to the datastore. In the case of block-based storage, the hypervisor uses the storage Host Bus adapter3 (HBA) driver to connect to the block-based SAN...
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..., and NDMP backups. Automated features such as load balancing across disks, RAID sets, connections, cache, and controllers help to minimize the amount of administration that IT must perform for both SAN and NAS services.
As with all Dell EqualLogic products, advanced features like wizard-based installation, automated setup and configuration, native support for Active Directory, LDAP and NIS, and...
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...file storage for virtual workloads
Figure 3. Multiple Virtual Workloads in a VMware environment on Dell EqualLogic FS7500
Test Hardware Configurations
The test hardware configuration consisted of two ESXi servers with 128GB of RAM, quad-socket, 12-core processors yielding 48 logical CPUs. Both servers were running VMware vSphere v4.1 Update 1 hypervisor. Two Dell PowerConnect 6248 Gigabit Ethernet...
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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
Virtual Workload Description
To ensure that we simulated a real life situation for our performance measurement, we chose to run a virtual workload mix based on a set of typical datacenter workloads including business applications as well as operations associated with managing the virtual environment. We used workloads...
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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
Table 1.
Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 over NFS
Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 NFS
Workload Name
Workload Application
Config.
Virtual Machine Platform
Virtual Machine Configuration
Performance QoS
Metric
Mail server
Exchange 2007
1000 Heavy Windows 2008 Profile Users 64-bit...
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... any disruptions in the production environment and without any forklift upgrades. Because virtual workloads can be hosted on both SAN and NAS devices, using either Windows or Linux operating systems, such a storage platform must also provide a consolidated storage pool with a single unified management interface. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 with PS Series arrays provides unmatched capabilities for such...
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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
Appendix A
Test System Components The hardware configuration used in the testing process is outlined below:
Hostname
Mgmt IP
Version
CPUs
ESX01 ESX02
192.168.100. 5
192.168.100. 6
VMware ESXi Installable 4.1.0 348481 (update 1)
Quad Socket, 12cores each (48 LCPUs)
Quad Socket, 12cores each (48 LCPUs)
RAM 128GB...