Dell EqualLogic Online SAN Pricing
Online SAN Pricing
At Federal Appliance, we understand that storage is crucial to your business with consolidation of storage becoming a priority for many medium to large organizations. Working with a leading iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) seller, Dell EqualLogic, we offer storage solutions that provide real business value and a rapid return on investment.
Our knowledge and experience with Equallogic is unparallelled. We offer a lowest pricing guarantee due to our sales volume. Speak to us first, and then feel free to try out exclusive self-service pricing tool.
Dell Equallogic Reseller
Fibre Channel has been the Industry Standard for Storage Area Networks. The cost and complexity of such storage solutions has however deterred many organizations from implementing a shared storage solution. Today there is an alternative, iSCSI, the Internet Small Computer System Interface.
With its comprehensive suite of all-inclusive, data-center-class software features, the EqualLogic PS Series (PS6100E, PS6100X, PS6100XV) is the clear natural selection for those seeking a full-featured, affordable, easy-to-manage storage solution. Whether you want to build a virtualized server environment, consolidate storage, migrate from DAS or NAS, streamline data protection, establish a disaster recovery infrastructure, or expand capacity, the PS Series of proven, self-managing storage arrays will meet the demanding requirements of your business-critical environment
EqualLogic is particularly strong for those organizations wishing to take full advantage of a virtual server environment. By deploying EqualLogic SANs with VMware or Microsoft HyperV IT managers are able to use a simple, flexible, and cost effective virtual storage solution that can adapt to ever-changing requirements.
Buy a Dell Equallogic SAN
In the current economy, SAN pricing has become a critical factor, and our Equallogic pricing can not be beat. Whether you utilize our professional installation services or not, you can buy from us at the same thin-margin price. Use our self-service pricing tool to get your SAN cost or call us and we’ll guide you to the proper Equallogic model selection free of charge. You can also get extremely competitive pricing to purchase a new Equallogic SAN, renew your existing Equallogic service agreement, or buy a new Equallogic service agreement.
You can also check out Nimble Storage pricing and Compellent pricing.
SAN Pricing should include support costs
SAN Pricing should include support costs
Does buying a “cheap SAN” really save you money?
The answer is not that simple. If you factor in administration costs (of poorly designed UIs), training, downtime, etc. then going cheap may be an expensive proposition.
But let’s take out the variable costs for a moment and consider just the hardware itself…and it’s WARRANTY.
The 3 year itch
Have you ever noticed that big SAN vendors like EMC and NetApp rarely price out support beyond 3 years? Ask a rep for years 4 and 5 support costs and you will get more twisting in the wind than Tarzan in a hurricane.
It’s not their fault
The main reason that three (3) years is a magic support number is because the DRIVES themselves are only warranted for three years from THEIR manufacturers. Supporting drives beyond that time period falls on the SAN vendor so most steer clear of it.
When you are comparing SAN Pricing with SAN Costs, always ask for years 4 and 5 support costs. Most modern SANs will last well into their fifth year, if not beyond.
EqualLogic Pricing Here
Compellent Pricing Here
Nimble Storage Pricing Here
SAN Cost and Pricing keep falling, performance increases
Original article by Michael Scalisi at PCWorld
Storage area network (SAN) technology has been around since the late 1990s, but historically it was priced far out of the range of small IT departments. Now this option for making more-efficient use of data storage has become affordable for all but the smallest of IT shops, SAN Pricing has come down significantly.
SAN devices are disk arrays located on a network storage device shared with multiple servers–up to 16 servers, for these models. To each server operating system, however, the storage that a SAN device provides appears to be dedicated, not shared.
It used to be that when you bought a server, you guessed how much storage you would need, and then bought disks based on that often-underestimated number. When your needs outgrew your disk capacity, you had to back up the server, replace the disks, and restore the data.
With a storage area network, however, you buy only as much storage as you initially need, and then expand as you go. This save your company money in hardware costs and energy consumption, and it reduces IT personnel workload and system downtime.
For a small business, high-throughput, low-latency fiber-channel-based SANs are still too pricey. But less-expensive iSCSI SANs, which use standard ethernet cables, network cards, and switches, have no trouble keeping up with the disks that small and medium-size companies are likely to use.
iSCSI, a protocol for connecting storage devices using the IP protocol and SCSI commands, replaces expensive SCSI cards and cables with ubiquitous ethernet hardware, and permits multiple computers to connect to a single drive array. With iSCSI, your storage location no longer needs to be close to your servers. Since ethernet cables can be up to 100 meters long, you can place a SAN wherever you like.
A key feature of SANs is “thin provisioning,” which in effect lets you lie to your server about how much storage is available to it. For example, you can fool each of five servers into thinking that it has 16TB (terabytes) of dedicated storage available when in reality your SAN has a total of just 2TB of actual disk space.
Of course, you’ll still have to add drives to your storage area network as your total data approaches capacity, but thin provisioning helps you avoid wasting space on underutilized servers or creating new partitions each time you add a physical disk.
SANs and virtual machines are a natural pairing. An eight-core server with 32GB of RAM now costs only a few thousand dollars, and that one box can run a handful of virtual machines effortlessly. Pairing a single computer with a storage area network, you can easily create all the services of a larger data center.
To install a SAN, you’ll need a storage area network array with at least two drives, one or two additional network cards per server (two is preferable), an ethernet switch (again, a pair is better), and all of the associated cabling. It is technically feasible to use your existing network for your SAN, but in practice you would never want to. Though iSCSI is a reduced-overhead protocol, subjecting your network to both iSCSI and regular ethernet traffic would quickly flood it .
SAN technology lets you store data across multiple servers with a level of efficiency unmatched by traditional options. A SAN can reduce the number of hard disks by 50 percent or more, which saves money in several ways. Fewer drives use less power, obviously, but they also generate less heat, reducing expenses for cooling systems.
There is a learning curve, in addition to additional upfront costs, but the payoff is the need for fewer disks down the road, less administrative overhead, and lower energy costs.
Several key resources to help you compare SAN costs:
EqualLogic Pricing
Compellent Pricing
Nimble Storage Pricing
EqualLogic SAN pricing
Dell Equallogic SAN Cost
Our knowledge and experience with Equallogic is unparallelled. We now offer a lowest pricing guarantee due to our sales volume. Speak to us first, and then feel free to shop our price quote.
Dell Equallogic Reseller
At Federal Appliance, we understand that storage is crucial to your business with consolidation of storage becoming a priority for many medium to large organizations. Working with a leading iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) seller, Dell EqualLogic, we offer storage solutions that provide real business value and a rapid return on investment.
Fibre Channel has traditionally been the Industry Standard for Storage Area Networks. The cost and complexity of such storage solutions has however deterred many organizations from implementing a shared storage solution. Today there is an alternative, iSCSI, the Internet Small Computer System Interface.
With its comprehensive suite of all-inclusive, data-center-class software features, the EqualLogic PS Series (PS6100E, PS6100X, PS6100XV) is the clear natural selection for those seeking a full-featured, affordable, easy-to-manage storage solution. Whether you want to build a virtualized server environment, consolidate storage, migrate from DAS or NAS, streamline data protection, establish a disaster recovery infrastructure, or expand capacity, the PS Series of proven, self-managing storage arrays will meet the demanding requirements of your business-critical environment
EqualLogic is particularly strong for those organizations wishing to take full advantage of a virtual server environment. By deploying EqualLogic SANs with VMware or Microsoft HyperV IT managers are able to use a simple, flexible, and cost effective virtual storage solution that can adapt to ever-changing requirements.
Buy a Dell Equallogic SAN
In the current economy, SAN pricing has become a critical factor, and our Equallogic pricing can not be beat. Whether you utilize our professional installation services or not, you can buy from us at the same thin-margin price. Use our self-service pricing tool to get your SAN cost or call us and we’ll guide you to the proper Equallogic model selection free of charge. You can also get extremely competitive pricing to purchase a new Equallogic SAN, renew your existing Equallogic service agreement, or buy a new Equallogic service agreement.
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Compellent Pricing
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