Master your data-hungry tasks with EqualLogic PS4100E — powerful performance with easy, flexible management for small or midsize companies and enterprise branch offices.

Enterprise features for smaller deployments

Ideal for your growing storage needs, the PS4100E GbE iSCSI array is a Dell™ Storage solution that offers a virtualized architecture, enterprise software and easy administration at an affordable price.

·         Take advantage of a data-center class IT solution in small and midsize businesses as well as enterprise branch offices.

·         Integrate full snapshot, replication and application integration for data protection and disaster recovery.

·         Cut management time and costs with self-optimizing performance and automation.

·         Manage your enterprise-wide EqualLogic™ SAN, including PS4100 remote-site arrays, with EqualLogic SAN Headquarters.

·         Expand easily into a larger EqualLogic SAN by adding PS4100 (maximum two per group) and PS6100 arrays to scale capacity and performance.

Whether you’re consolidating a direct-attached storage (DAS) infrastructure, migrating data from an existing SAN or NAS system, streamlining data protection processes, or simply adding storage capacity, the Dell EqualLogic PS4100 series offers a solution. The proven, high-performance, self-managing storage arrays are designed to meet the requirements of your growing business.

The Dell EqualLogic™ PS4100 series enables you to choose the storage solution that best suits your small or midsize business or enterprise branch office. The PS4100 series family features:

·         Dual controllers designed for built-in redundancy

·         Two GbE ports per controller

·         Dedicated 10/100 management port per controller

·         6G SAS backplane

·         Cache-to-flash memory destaging

·         Peer-scaling architecture that scales performance linearly

·         Vertical port failover, designed to enable you to maintain full bandwidth if a networking port fails

·         Group manager, which integrates all management into one console for both file and block storage protocols

·         Array firmware and host software with no additional licenses or fees

Product Configurations

·         Storage Controllers
Dual controllers with 4GB non-volatile memory per controller

Hard Disk Drives
Twelve (12) NL-SAS hot-pluggable hard drives.

Drive Capacities
3.5" 7.2K RPM NL-SAS drives available in 1TB, 2TB or 3TB 

Technical Highlights

·         Volumes
Up to 256

Snapshots
128 per volume / up to 2,048 total per group

Volume Connections
Up to 512 per pool / 1024 per group

Host Protocol
Any standards-compliant iSCSI initiator

Operating Systems Supported

Microsoft® Windows Server® including Hyper-V®
VMware® ESX Server™
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL)
SUSE® Enterprise Linux® (SLES)
Oracle® Linux
Oracle® Solaris™
IBM® AIX®
HP-UX
Mac OS® X
Citrix® XenServer®
Novell® NetWare®

For a complete list of supported OS versions including software initiators, NICs/CNAs, and HBAs, see the EqualLogic Compatibility Matrix on http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/2661.equallogic-compatibility-matrix-07262013.aspx.

RAID Support
RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 502

GbE Network Interfaces
Management network: One 100BASE-TX per controller
Interface ports: Two 1000BASE-T ports per controller

TCP Network Support
IPv4 SAN and management traffic supported, and IPv6 SAN and in-band management supported

Expansion Option
Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series arrays in the same SAN group, online. A maximum of two (2) PS4x00 arrays can be in a group.