The Dell™ EqualLogic™ FS7500 adds Network attached storage (NAS) capability to new and existing EqualLogic block storage systems to provide a scale-out unified storage solution. With unified storage, your EqualLogic system stores block and file data on a single platform, improving productivity and streamlining your IT infrastructure.
File services are provided by the FS7500 through industry-standard CIFS/SMB and NFS protocols over standard Ethernet interfaces. The FS7500 uses the Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) to optimize file access performance and hardware utilization while eliminating capacity constraints. It presents a single file-system namespace through a virtual IP address, regardless of cluster size, and it enables you to expand a single file system up to the capacity of the EqualLogic deployment (maximum of 510TB raw storage).
As your needs grow and change, you can easily scale your EqualLogic Unified SAN/NAS system for both capacity and performance without disrupting the storage system or applications. For more capacity, simply add more EqualLogic arrays; for increased performance, add more FS7500 systems.
Deployment and management of the FS7500 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.
Key Benefits
- Unified IP storage solution (iSCSI, CIFS, NFS) with scale-out NAS performance
- Single file share scalability up to the full capacity of the EqualLogic deployment, currently validated to 510TB
- Compatible with all EqualLogic arrays, including PS6010/6510, PS6000 and PS4000 series
- Integrated with Group Manager, easy-to-use EqualLogic management software
- User accessible snapshots
- NDMP Back-Up
- Inclusive software delivery model
- Single namespace with load balanced IO
- Mirrored, battery-backed write caches
- RAID 5, 6, 10, 50C
