Dell TechCenter: EqualLogic 10GB and PowerConnect 8024F Reference Architecture

As part of Dell’s continuing effort to provide the best technical guidance available, Dell’s SIS team has started a test and validation program focused on switches used in EqualLogic SANs. As part of this effort, each switch that Dell’s SIS team tests will be added to a new "Recommended Switch’s for EqualLogic" document. While we [...]

Turbo-Charging VDI: Dell’s EqualLogic Hybrid SSD/SAS Arrays Deliver the Density

This is from Taneja Group 2010 saw great leaps from the VDI platform vendors, broadening the scope of potential use cases for server hosted desktop virtualization (VDI). VMware, in particular, upped the performance game with View 4.5’s storage enhancements, which offload storage optimization to the array. Dell’s moved quickly to capitalize on all of VMware’s [...]

EqualLogic HIT 3.5.0 Early Production Access

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. Early Production Access software is fully supported for production use. Customers should read the documentation and plan an upgrade in keeping with their organization’s business practices. For customers who are [...]

Power Solutions: EqualLogic Best Practices for deploying DSS database solutions

By Suresh Jasrasaria, Ananda Sankaran, and Chris Almond Effective decision support systems (DSSs) or data warehousing (DW) database solutions require scalable storage platforms that offer high levels of performance and capacity. DSS applications are typically designed to support long-running, complex analytical query activities using very large data sets. The data I/O pattern from storage to [...]

Power Solutions: EqualLogic cost effective tiering for virtualized SANs

By Achmad Chadran and Keith Swindell Rampant data growth and stringent data retention policies are placing huge demands on enterprise storage resources. Several factors have contributed to this explosion of data, including increasing application diversity and specialization, the proliferation of automated data collection tools for advanced decision support and other processes, and regulatory standards for [...]

Whiteboarding EqualLogic and VMware with Will Urban Part 3

More about Will Urban (@VirtWillU) I work for Dell as a Product Solutions Engineer in the Nashua Design Center working on VMware integration with the EqualLogic PS Series SAN products.  The views and discussions on this blog are my own and do not necessarily represent my Employer.  The idea of this blog is to educate [...]

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