Overview:
Improve productivity and streamline your IT infrastructure by storing block and file data on a single scale-out storage platform. The unique architecture behind the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and the EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 NAS appliances helps you expand storage capacity and system performance non-disruptively as your needs evolve over time.
Store more in less space
New deduplication and compression technologies found in FluidFS v3 can decrease the capacity you’ll need to store common data by up to 48%.1 Fluid Data Reduction technology also has the ability to automatically compress data, further reducing your data footprint and TCO.
Protect data with enterprise-class features
FluidFS v3 also protects your data through:
- File-level, user-restorable snapshots
- Asynchronous, file system-level, snapshot-based replication to peer FS7600 or FS7610 systems
- Full replication of the entire file system, including shares, exports and permissions, to help ease data recovery following a disaster
- Common Internet File System (CIFS) anti-virus support through any ICAP AV server and certified partner software
- Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) for backup and disaster recovery
Manage growth intelligently
Manage your storage growth with the flexibility to scale both performance and capacity independently without disruption.
- Seamlessly incorporate with existing or new EqualLogic PS Series arrays and eliminate forklift upgrades.
- Expand block and file storage capacity within a single namespace up to 509TB2 with a storage backend of EqualLogic PS arrays.
- Improve scalability, performance and security with expanded protocol support.
- Easily increase performance by adding a second FS7600 or FS7610 appliance.
- Intuitively manage block and file operations with EqualLogic Group Manager or CLI.
Create an integrated and dependable network
Bring fully integrated, end-to-end unified storage to your EqualLogic storage system with the FS7600 and FS7610 NAS appliances. These solutions work with EqualLogic PS Series arrays to deliver the core benefits of the EqualLogic platform, including peer scaling, ease-of-use features and all-inclusive software licensing. The EqualLogic FS Series features:
- 2U dedicated NAS platform with two highly available active-active controllers and a PCIe backplane for intercontroller communication
- FS7610: Four 10GbE ports for SAN connectivity and four ports for the client network
- FS7600: Eight GbE ports for SAN connectivity and eight ports for the client network
For dependability day after and day, EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 NAS appliances include:
- Active/active clustering and cache mirroring for controller pairs
- Integrated backup power supply to protect cached data in case of controller failure
- Fully redundant and hot swappable controllers, power supplies and fans
- Automatic controller failover
- Checksums and failsafe journaling to protect file metadata
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Dell ProSupport Plus for critical systems or Dell ProSupport for premium hardware and software support are recommended to provide you the right support services for your EqualLogic solution.3 Contact your Dell sales representative for more information.
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Benefits:
Scale-out unified storage optimized for midrange deployments
Unstructured file data is a large part of IT storage environments, and it’s growing faster and faster. Whether it’s for documents, images or file-based workflows, the amount of capacity required for file data continues to increase with no end in sight. But just adding disks to support that mountain of file data won’t help.
The EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 (FS7600 Series) are key components of the Dell storage architecture, which puts the right information in the right place at the right time — for the right cost. Unlike many unified storage solutions that only scale in capacity, the EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 with EqualLogic PS Series arrays can scale capacity and performance independently. As your needs grow and change, you can dynamically modify your block and file storage capacity without disrupting existing applications and storage systems. These systems support both 1Gb Ethernet (FS7600) and 10Gb Ethernet with either SPF+ or BASE-T (FS7610) connectivity to the SAN and client network; plus, the 1GbE is upgradeable to 10GbE1.
As you scale your unified EqualLogic storage, you can easily increase the capacity or performance of your storage environment. To expand capacity, simply add more PS Series arrays — the EqualLogic FS7600 Series supports all new and existing EqualLogic arrays. To improve front-end file performance, two FS7600 or FS7610 NAS appliances can be joined in the same EqualLogic storage pool, while still providing a single namespace.
Next generation architecture provides an alternative to traditional file shares
The EqualLogic FS7600 Series appliances use the latest generation of Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS), a scale-out distributed file system implemented across Dell Storage product lines. FluidFS is designed to optimize file access performance and is built on proven hardware. Capacity can easily be expanded across the entire storage backend, all within a single namespace. Administration is system implemented across Dell Storage product lines. FluidFS is designed to optimize file access performance and is built on proven hardware. Capacity can easily be expanded across the entire storage backend, all within a single namespace. Administration is 3, the capacity needed to store common enterprise data can be dramatically decreased. Savings of up to 48% are possible though policy-driven, variable-block deduplication and LZPS compression of the data. These new features are available to existing customers as part of the FluidFS v3 upgrade; no extra hardware or licensing fees are required.
With the FS7600 Series, an EqualLogic group can serve up to 509TB of usable capacity for file storage, all within a single namespace. To help improve storage flexibility and utilization, the EqualLogic FS7600 Series features a virtualization layer that lets you expand NAS storage dynamically without any downtime.
With the FS7600 Series, an EqualLogic group can serve up to 509TB of usable capacity for file storage, all within a single namespace. To help improve storage flexibility and utilization, the EqualLogic FS7600 Series features a virtualization layer that lets you expand NAS storage dynamically without any downtime.
All FS7600 Series appliances in a FluidFS cluster support active I/O, providing high intrinsic performance without exotic protocols or the need to manually distribute application load across multiple filers. Load balancing automatically distributes client requests across all NAS controllers to optimize resource usage.
Advanced features, EqualLogic family values
In addition to block storage management, NAS deployment and management functionality are fully integrated into EqualLogic Group Manager, including administration, monitoring and maintenance operations. Group Manager automates the initial setup and configuration of your FS7600 Series appliance, simplifying the process of creating volumes and shares. An FS7600 Series NAS appliance can be configured and added to an EqualLogic Group quickly and efficiently.
In addition to a range of data protection features for block storage, the EqualLogic FS7600 Series NAS appliances include advanced file data protection features such as snapshots, replication, NDMP backup and CIFS antivirus integration. End users can restore previous versions of files either from a snapshot directory, or through the familiar Previous Versions dialog box in Windows Explorer without IT assistance, freeing up administrators for more productive work. To keep the data on CIFS shares virus free, the appliances can be integrated with qualified anti-virus solutions, part of a growing ecosystem of solutions that are tested and supported by the FS7600 Series NAS appliance.
As with all EqualLogic products, the FS7600 Series NAS appliance’s full feature set, software licensing and future firmware enhancements are included in the base price. This provides licensing simplicity, access to a comprehensive set of product features and ongoing value after initial purchase.
1 Available early 2014.
2 Based on May 2013 internal Dell analysis of the FS8600 NAS appliance with Fluid Data Reduction, using real-world home share environment comprised of Office files (21%), .GZ (19%) and .flate (19%) files, among others.
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Training
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Decrease downtime, improve utilization and ensure business continuity with storage training from Dell Education Services. Choose from courses designed to introduce Dell EqualLogic storage and prepare you for more advanced topics to courses that dive into the advanced features included in the storage solution and how to apply best practices.
