Overview:
Now you can improve productivity and streamline your IT infrastructure by storing block and file data on a single platform with EqualLogic PS Series arrays and the Dell EqualLogic™ FS7500. The FS7500 is a high performance solution that works with new and existing EqualLogic storage arrays so you can easily configure and manage iSCSI, CIFS, and NFS access to a single flexible storage pool using EqualLogic Group Manager. Its unique scale-out architecture lets you expand storage capacity and/or system performance as your needs change over time.
Grow block and file capacity non-disruptively with EqualLogic™ FS7500, the only scale-out unified storage architecture optimized for midsize and smaller deployments.
- Expand storage dynamically, modifying block and file capacity without disrupting existing applications and storage systems.
- Scale a single file share up to 509TB usable capacity.
- Automate initial setup and configuration with the EqualLogic Group Manager administrator interface.
Feel like an enterprise
Empower your SAN with the EqualLogic™ FS7500 and Dell Fluid File System, the only scale-out unified storage architecture optimized for midsize and smaller EqualLogic storage deployments.
The scale-out, unified difference
Expand block and file capacity and performance without interruption. Adding FS7500 controllers and EqualLogic™ arrays to your storage system can increase capacity and helps enhance computer performance as well. The EqualLogic FS7500 enables you to:
- Manage block and file storage using a single interface.
- Seamlessly expand Common Internet File Systems (CIFS) and Network File Systems (NFS) with the high-performance Dell™ Fluid File System.
- Leverage existing hardware and help eliminate forklift upgrades.
- No 16-100TB file share size limitations — a single file share can be scaled to the full capacity of the backend storage system (up to 509TB usable storage capacity).
- Dual active/active controller architecture provides high-availability and outstanding performance.
- Works with new and existing EqualLogic™ PS arrays.
- Supports iSCSI, CIFS and NFS protocols.
- Features quotas, user-restorable snapshots, seamless integration with Active Directory, NIS and LDAP, and Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup support.
Dell Fluid File System
- Supports both scale-out performance and scale-up capacity expansion.
- Incorporates advance caching, load balancing and multithreading for fast I/O processing.
- Presents a storage pool as a single file system with a single virtual IP address to the storage client(s).
- Provides a single global namespace for flexible accessibility.
New opportunity for small and midsize businesses
See what the FS7500 can offer you as a flexible and practical alternative to Windows® file servers. The wizard-based installation tool automates the initial setup and configuration process, helping reduce the time required to provision the NAS system and to create and manage multiple volumes and shares.
The EqualLogic FS7500 scale-out unified storage solution is designed with comprehensive features and functionality that are intuitive and easy to use. In addition, software licensing and future firmware enhancements are included in the base price to help alleviate any concerns about add-on licensing and maintenance costs.
Key Benefits:
Scale-out unified storage, optimized for
the midrange
Unstructured file data is a massive portion of IT storage environments — and it's growing faster and faster. Whether it's documents, video or other rich content, decision makers want more of it, and so do your customers. But just adding disks to support that mountain of file data won't help.
The EqualLogic FS7500 helps you solve this problem. Unlike many unified storage solutions that only scale in capacity, the EqualLogic FS7500 can scale capacity and performance. For more capacity, add more EqualLogic arrays; for increased performance, add more FS7500 systems. As you scale your FS7500 solution, you can actually increase the overall performance of your storage environment.
As your needs grow and change, you can dynamically modify your block and file storage capacity without disrupting existing applications and storage systems. The industry's only scale-out solution optimized for mid-sized and smaller deployments, the EqualLogic FS7500 is a key enabler of Dell's Fluid Data Architecture, which delivers solutions that give people the right information at the right time for the right cost.
Expand traditional file share limits
The EqualLogic FS7500 implements Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS), which is designed to optimize file access performance and hardware utilization while eliminating capacity constraints. A key component in Dell's Fluid Data strategy, FluidFS is a high-performance scale-out file system that presents a single file-system namespace through a virtual IP address, regardless of cluster size.
Most NAS solutions have strict limits on file system and share size, but Dell Fluid File System has no such limitations. With the FS7500, you can even expand a single file share up to the capacity of your EqualLogic backend (maximum of 509TB usable storage).
A flexible and practical alternative to Windows File Servers
NAS deployment and management functionality is fully integrated into EqualLogic Group Manager, including administration, monitoring and maintenance operations. Group Manager automates the initial setup and configuration of your FS7500 system, simplifying the process of creating volumes and shares. A FS7500 NAS system can be configured and added to EqualLogic arrays quickly and efficiently.
Advanced features, EqualLogic family values
The EqualLogic FS7500 includes a snapshot capability (separate from iSCSI snapshots). End-users can restore previous versions of files from a directory of these snapshots themselves, without contacting IT, freeing up administrators for more productive work. To help improve storage utilization, the EqualLogic FS7500 features a virtualization layer that lets you expand NAS service dynamically. The FS7500 is easily integrated into your backup environment with support for NDMP backup.
As with all Dell EqualLogic products, the FS7500's new features, software licensing and future firmware enhancements are included in the base price.
High availability file serving
A dual active/active controller architecture and sizable onboard cache give the EqualLogic FS7500 outstanding performance. Each system provides 48GB of battery-protected memory and traffic is automatically load balanced across all nodes.
The EqualLogic FS7500 supports all new and existing EqualLogic arrays. A single FS7500 system can support up to eight EqualLogic PS Arrays with the ability to add another FS7500 system into the same namespace to improve file performance.
Services:
Dell believes that a well-planned and maintained storage infrastructure can support growing data requirements without the corresponding increase in cost and complexity. Intelligent data management allows organizations to optimize the value of their storage investment with a better use of resources. Dell Data Management Services can help customers design, implement, manage and maintain storage infrastructures that satisfy data availability, retention and recovery requirements.
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Comprehensive Training
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