Storage Solutions - EqualLogic

EqualLogic is changing the way people experience storage.

INTELLIGENT iSCSI STORAGE ARRAYS Download Overview

EqualLogic's storage area networks enable fast, flexible storage setup and provisioning while dramatically reducing the time and cost required to manage, maintain and grow a SAN environment - locally or remotely.

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Data Storage Consolidation

EqualLogic's iSCSI SAN is an affordable, intelligent, easy to manage solution for data storage consolidation.

The Pain of Growth

The unrelenting growth of company files, e-mail, databases, and application data drives a constant need for more storage. But with storage directly attached to servers, growth means burdensome storage management and decreased asset utilization. Storage resources remain trapped behind individual servers, impeding data availability.

Consolidation in a storage area network (SAN) can alleviate much of the pain - but until recently, the only SAN choice was Fibre Channel, which is too costly and complex for most organizations.

EqualLogic Storage Consolidation: Simple, Affordable, Easy

An EqualLogic iSCSI SAN - affordable, based on standard protocols, and easy to deploy - brings the benefits of storage consolidation to all your data. With our fully redundant solution you can leverage centralized storage to gain simpler management, data sharing, and improved availability. A single pool of storage makes allocating volumes easier, and improves backup and disaster recovery. You can grow on demand as your needs change and gain better performance through our unique architecture, which automatically load balances across multiple arrays, disks, and ports. Built-in intelligence delivers the highest levels of performance, scalability, and availability.

Benefits of Storage Consolidation

• Increased productivity
• Maximum availability
• Increased asset utilisation
• Scalability with better performance
• Simpler management and reduced administrative overhead

Improved backup

EqualLogic supports the following Host vendors for consolidation

• Apple Computer, Inc.
• Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)
• IBM Corporation
• Microsoft Corporation
• Novell, Inc.
• Red Hat
• Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• VMware

EqualLogic supports the following technology partners for enhanced consolidation solutions

• Alacritech, Inc.
• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• emBoot, Inc.
• Polyserve
• QLogic

Backup and Restore

Backup and restore using EqualLogic's snapshot functionality saves you time and increases productivity while providing better end-to-end data protection.

Problems Of Current Backup and Restore Solutions

To have a consistent, usable, secure copy of data to store long term, backup is required. But backup can be a burden - long backup windows reduce productivity, and backing up distributed servers with individual storage is cumbersome. Server-side tape drives require more equipment, more staff, and more time; LAN-based backup degrades network performance. To restore data from backup format can take days, and without application coordination, data integrity is not assured.

EqualLogic Snapshots Save Time and Increase Availability

A superior solution is to backup data snapshots with EqualLogic PS Series arrays. With our affordableburden. Created manually or on a schedule, PS Series snapshots help to eliminate or reduce the backup window by taking instant point-in-time copies of consolidated data. Snapshot data are ready to use and available for instantaneous restore, and multiple snapshots provide multiple restore points.

Benefits of EqualLogic Snapshot-based Backup and Restore

• Eliminate backup window, minimize disruption
• Instant recovery with multiple restore points
• Application-consistent format available
• Reduces data and time loss in the event of a failure

EqualLogic works with the following technology partners for enhanced backup and restore solutions:

• Asigra Inc.
• CommVault Systems, Inc.
• Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA)
• FilesX, Inc.
• Microsoft Corporation
• Mimosa Systems, Inc.
• Spectra Logic Corporation
• Sonasoft Corporation
• TimeSpring

Disaster Recovery

EqualLogic iSCSI SANs make data disaster recovery affordable, fast, and simple.

DR Has Been Necessary, But Too Complex And Expensive

Disaster recovery beyond backup was not affordable for most organizations when Fibre Channel SANs were the only option. Complex configurations including channel extension equipment, add-on software, and staff training are prohibitively expensive. Recent compliance regulations (e.g., HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and SEC rules) have pressured organizations of all sizes to make more data quickly recoverable for longer periods of time; company files, databases, and e-mail must be restorable for years.

Every EqualLogic SAN Includes Replication

With storage consolidated on EqualLogic PS Series arrays, disaster recovery is now affordable, fast, and simple. No expensive channel extension equipment, add-on software, or costly staff training are needed - instead, leverage your existing investment in WAN equipment and IT staff for lower cost. Our Auto-Replication capability, standard in each array, provides point-in-time periodic replication to multiple remote sites. This method, easy to set up and operate, delivers multiple restore points and application-consistent copies that can be restored in minutes.

Benefits of Auto-Replication for Data Disaster Recovery:

• Affordable, easy to use and deploy
• Multiple application-consistent restore points
• Recover in minutes
• Lower ongoing costs

EqualLogic works with the following technology partners for enhanced data disaster recovery solutions:

• Asigra Inc.
• CommVault Systems, Inc.
• FilesX, Inc.
• Microsoft Corporation
• Mimosa Systems, Inc.
• Riverbed
• Spectra Logic Corporation
• Sonasoft Corporation

Product Spec Sheets

PS Series Storage Stack
PS Series SAS Arrays
PS Series SATA Arrays

For further information on EqualLogic and their products please visit www.equallogic.com