Reducing your backup/restore times with EqualLogic from days/hours to minutes

Everyone is running out of disk space, our users keep filling up their home directory’s, and group shares.  With compliance and archive we now have to keep application and user data around longer than ever. Unfortunately with the ever increasing amount of data our “Backup Window” stays the same and doesn’t increase.  I know many [...]

How to shrink an EqualLogic Volume in Windows Server 2008

I like to show how to expand EqualLogic Volumes in Windows Server 2008 as part of my regular demo with customers, partners and at events. Sometimes I am asked if you can shrink EqualLogic Volumes in Windows Server 2008 and the answer is yes you can. NOTE: You can also do this with Windows Server [...]

Dell EqualLogic 10Gig Ethernet SAN: What you need

Happy Holidays! When building your brand new 10Gig SAN with EqualLogic, this is what you need. 10Gig Ethernet NICs for your Servers, Dell has them 10Gig Ethernet Switch, Dell has that too 10Gig EqualLogic Array, of course Dell has that NOTE: When configuring the PowerConnect 8024F, make sure you order the SFP+ twinax cables to [...]

New Release: Firmware 4.3.2

Download from the EqualLogic support site at: https://www.equallogic.com/support/download.aspx?id=9103

Ingredients for a 10GigE EqualLogic SAN

First start off by selecting your 10GigE EqualLogic PS Series Array: – PS6010E with 7.2K SATA Drives – PS6010X with 10K SAS Drives – PS6010XV with 15K SAS Drives – PS6010S with SSD Drives – PS6510E with 7.2K SATA Drives For more information: http://www.equallogic.com/products/ps6010-series.aspx?id=8901&slider6010=1 Second we need to add a 10Gig Ethernet Switch: – Dell [...]

EqualLogic Customer: Watermark Church

This is a great video that really focuses on the ease of use and scalability of EqualLogic. Watermark has over 5,000 members and there IT “team” has 2 people.

HIT Toolkit v3.3.1 just released

Host Integration Tools version 3.3.1 includes the following new features: Support for existing Host Integration Tools features on the Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 OS platforms Support for ASMCLI on Windows 2008 R2 Core Enhanced Remote Setup Wizard Discovery for new array setup Support for LUN Resync in the EqualLogic VSS Hardware Provider on [...]

SAN HQ v2.0 just released

This new version of SANHQ adds the following functionality: https://www.equallogic.com/support/download.aspx?id=8923 Pre-defined Reports Analytics Enhancements Single Sign-On (SSO) for launching the Group Admin Built In Syslog Server & Message Viewer iSCSI sessions information Provide Outbound Replication Information & Update Replication Views Volume Collections information Email Enhancements New Alerts Navigation Enhancements Range Selection on Chart Areas Updated [...]

10GigE + EqualLogic = PS6x10 Series Arrays

EqualLogic’s new 10GbE iSCSI SAN now with 10X more storage performance for virtualization & high throughput business applications. The newest iSCSI arrays in the PS Series, the EqualLogic PS6010 and PS6510, add the power of 10GbE technology to the exceptional EqualLogic storage performance of previous generations. They deliver increased bandwidth performance for streaming workloads, business [...]

EqualLogic Bits: Software Overview

Here is a short EqualLogic Bits segment on the “All Inclusive Enterprise Class software” included with EqualLogic PS Series Arrays.

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