Performance and Functionality

Get the Most Out of Your Storage

The extensive family of Dell™ Storage Solutions can address the specific needs and complex requirements of today's businesses. From low-latency solid-state drives (SSDs) to high-bandwidth 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) connectivity, Dell can help you align the value of your data and applications with the storage performance they require. Each solution has features that give you the most out of your storage:

  • The Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series all-inclusive, intelligent feature set enables enterprise-level storage features for virtually every size organization.
  • Dell Compellent™ Storage Center™ delivers best in breed efficiency, agility and resiliency for workloads covering departmental to core data center.
  • Intelligent management features, along with extensive drive options, such as low-latency SSDs, high-performance serial attached SCSI (SAS) drives and large-capacity serial ATA (SATA) drives, enable you to tier your data based on your business needs.
  • Application-layer integration with our software partners helps ensure availability of your mission-critical applications.
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    Dell EqualLogic PS Series: Improve Application Performance

    Looking to improve application performance and availability? Dell EqualLogic storage delivers both the efficiency of shared, networked storage AND the control to align mission-critical applications with high-performance storage media.

  2. Virtualized Exchange 2010 Performance: Comparing Midrange Dell EqualLogic, HP LeftHand & Fibre Channel SANs

    Virtualized Exchange 2010 Performance: Comparing Midrange Dell EqualLogic, HP LeftHand and Fibre Channel SANs

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    Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to compare the performance of midrange storage area network (SAN) solutions using a heavily virtualized Exchange 2010 workload.

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    Optimize storage for multi-tiered workloads with Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS & PS6010XVS iSCSI SAN arrays

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    Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SANs provide a number of features for automating tiered storage. The PS6000XVS/PS6010XVS arrays advance these features further, by allowing tiering across SSD and SAS media within a single enclosure.

  4. InfoWorld Review: Dell iSCSI SAN Sizzles with SSD, dynamic storage tiering

    InfoWorld Review: Dell iSCSI SAN Sizzles with SSD, dynamic storage tiering

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    The Dell EqualLogic PS6010XVS with automated storage tiering leverages fast SAS or faster SSD storage depending on workload.

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    Using Tiered Storage in a PS Series Storage Area Network (SAN)

    This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series storage area network (SAN).

  6. Accelerating Virtualization Performance with Dell EqualLogic and VMware vSphere 4.1

    Accelerating Virtualization Performance with Dell EqualLogic and VMware vSphere 4.1

    As part of the ongoing relationship with VMware, Dell plans enhanced integration of the EqualLogic PS Series with VMware vSphere and VMware vStorage.

  7. Automate Storage Tiering Simply and Efficiently With Dell EqualLogic PS Series Virtualized iSCSI SANs

    Automate Storage Tiering Simply and Efficiently With Dell EqualLogic PS Series Virtualized iSCSI SANs

    A growing number of enterprises have adopted storage tiering, a Best Practices approach that directs application workloads to the storage media with the most suitable performance and cost characteristics.

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    Scaling Out Virtualized Storage Area Networks with Dell and Arista

    A base infrastructure built upon Dell PowerEdge™ servers, EqualLogic PS Series SANs and Arista 7100 Series of 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet switches is designed to offer an environment for high-performance, reliable and scalable virtualization.

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    Affordable, powerful storage for Oracle database with Dell EqualLogic

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    The Dell EqualLogic storage solutions for Oracle databases can allow organizations to help reduce capital and operational expenditures, maximizing return on investment.

  10. Solid-State Disks and Storage Tiering

    Solid-State Disks and Storage Tiering

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    For known tierable workloads, solid-state disks (SSDs) are a great advancement. This popular and growing technology is more widely applicable with automated storage tiering.