RICOM offers the Dell PS6500e Virtualized iSCSI SAN storage system at a cost savings to our customers. The Dell PS6500e Virtualized iSCSI arrays peer storage architecture delivers a capable and affordable SAN that is extremely simple to manage. Reduce TCO with an all inclusive Equallogic Dell software suite that ships with every PS6500e iSCSI array. Installing the Dell PS6500e is fast and easy. This array can be installed and configured in less than 1 hour. The Dell PS6500e Virtualized iSCSI SAN is a very reliable, easy to install and configure system. Contact a RICOM storage specialist for pricing and availability on Dell Equallogic arrays, servers and peripherals. RICOM carries a large inventory of Dell enterprise IT equipment. We also buy back decommissioned Dell products.

This unit is configured with 48 X 2TB SATA II hard drives and dual controllers.  RICOM can configure EqualLogic PS6500 SANs to your desired specification. 

Dell’s EqualLogic PS6500E virtualized architecture comes with a dense SATA package for affordable, enterprise-capable tiered storage. Like the rest of the EqualLogic product family, it combines 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 768 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.

Dell EqualLogic PS6500E 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
  48 SATA hot-pluggable hard disk drives
• Drive Capacities
  7,200 RPM SATA II drives available in 500GB, or 1TB
• System Capacities
  24TB using forty-eight (48) 500GB SATA disk drives
  48TB using forty-eight (48) 1TB 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
  • Windows Server 2008 R2, including Hyper-V
  • VMware ESX Server 3 / 3.5 / 4 / 4.1 / ESXi 3.5 / 4 / 4.1
  • Citrix XenServer
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise
  • Linux
  • Sun 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
  4 copper
• TCP Network Support
  IPv4, IPv6 core support including JITC
• Expansion Option
  Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series online in the same SAN group; PS6500E can only be in a pool with other PS5500E, PS6500X and/or PS6500E systems

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 to monitor health of data on disk drives

Management Interfaces

• SAN HQ 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: 96 cm / 37.8 in
• Weight: 74.8 kg / 165 lb (maximum configuration)

For quantity discounts on PS6500E please contact a shopricom sales associate at 800-997-8008.

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