NEW: SANHQ 2.1.0 Officially Released

https://www.equallogic.com/support/download.aspx?id=8495 SAN HeadQuarters provides centralized performance and event monitoring for multiple Dell EqualLogic PS Series groups. This version of SANHQ adds the following new functionality: Support for EqualLogic Firmware v5.0 Support for PS6000XVS and PS6010XVS Report Enhancements Usability Enhancements Update Notifications

NEW: Firmware 4.3.7 Officially Released

https://www.equallogic.com/support/download.aspx?id=9787 Customers running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 clusters are encouraged to apply the hot fix specified in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 978562 to each cluster node. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978562 for more information. Version 4.3 includes the features and functionality of V4.2 and new features including: Support for 10Gb controllers (PS6010 and PS6510) Version 4.2 includes [...]

NEW: HIT 3.4.1 Officially Released

https://www.equallogic.com/support/download.aspx?id=9769 Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools integrate Windows systems with PS Series storage arrays. This allows fast provisioning of Windows Systems on a PS Series SAN. Host Integration Tools version 3.4.1 supports the following new features: Microsoft Exchange Enhancements Support for Exchange 2010 LCR and SCR Support for Exchange 2007 Support for Restore as New [...]

UPDATE: Sept 9 EqualLogic User Group changed to Sept 16

The EqualLogic User Group scheduled for Troy, MI on Thursday September 9 has been rescheduled to Thursday September 16. Agenda, location, time is the exact same, just moved the date to the Thursday September 16.

NEW: Coffee Breaks iSCSI, Management, Tiering

iSCSI: The New Standard for Networked Storage iSCSI lets businesses leverage existing skills and network infrastructure to create IP-based SANs that deliver the performance of Fibre Channel, but at a fraction of the cost. http://www.equallogic.com/resourcecenter/assetview.aspx?id=4829 The Key to SAN Benefits: Management Tools The primary goal of SAN implementations is to make storage management easier – [...]

NEW: Solution Brief DP and DR with VMware

Comprehensive Data Protection & DR with Dell EqualLogic and VMware Multi-Layer Protection from Application to the Entire Data Center with Dell EqualLogic™ Solutions http://www.equallogic.com/resourcecenter/assetview.aspx?id=7599 Simple, intuitive virtualized iSCSI SAN can enable VMware® VMotion, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, and Site Recovery Manager Application-aware snapshots are designed to protect Windows Applications High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based [...]

Dell TechCenter: Sizing/Best Practices for vSphere, Exchange 2010, EqualLogic

Brand new, hot off the press Technical Whitepaper: http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/-945gZN0YQ6QL078ZK8NVw999632 Posted from my Dell Streak

EqualLogic: MI User Group Meetings in September

This is what we will be covering at the September meetings in Troy and Grand Rapids: – Firmware 5 – HIT 3.4 – vSphere 4.1 integration – PS6000/6010XVS – EqualLogic User Conference in San Diego If you haven’t received an invite with the link to register, please let me know. Posted from my Dell Streak

NEW EqualLogic Coffee Break: Frame vs Frameless Storage

This is a great One Pager to review with your perspective customers or as a leave behind. Storage system evaluations often focus on hardware or protocol choices—do you want SAS systems? A Fibre Channel SAN? iSCSI? Equally important yet often neglected is a discussion of fundamental storage designs and how they define your options for [...]

EqualLogic Bits: EqualLogic is Storage Virtualization

In this Equalogic Bits Segment I will discuss how EqualLogic truly is Virtualized Storage and how this relates to Server Virtualization and Desktop Virtualization.

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