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.
Nimble Storage converges Primary and Backup
Nimble Storage’s recipe for converging primary and backup storage is simple and has two parts.
1. Capacity optimization: Storing backups for 30–90 days needs lots of capacity. In a system not designed to store backups, they can easily use 10–20x the space used in primary storage. Nimble handles this problem as follows:
- Store all data on high-capacity disk drives. These disks have over 3x the capacity and 1/6x the cost per GB of high-performance disks. They also have only 1/3x the performance of high-performance disks, but we deal with that separately. (The high-capacity disks have often been called SATA disks, but that is quickly becoming a misnomer as high-capacity SAS drives enter the market.)
- Use data reduction techniques such as compression and block sharing. These techniques can reduce the space used by backups by 10–20x. Block sharing can take many forms, e.g., snapshots and dedupe, and it is important to pick judiciously based on the context. I will write further about this in the next article.
2. Performance optimization: Especially random IO performance. Common business applications such as Exchange and SQL Server generate lots of random IO. Hard disks are generally bad at random IO. High-capacity disks are particularly bad. We use two techniques that more than make up for this slowness:
- Accelerate random reads using flash as a large cache. Most storage vendors have a story around using flash. However, flash has some peculiar characteristics, and how a system uses flash is more important than whether it uses flash. In particular, flash is not a performance cure-all; e.g., it might not be cost effective in accelerating random writes.
- Accelerate random writes by sequentializing them on disk. This technology has been known for some time as log-structured file systems, but it has become more interesting recently because of new enabling technologies.
See Nimble Storage Cost more details at 4nimblestorage.
Please visit SAN Cost for more general SAN Pricing information.
New PS6000 is announced.
Pricing is not yet available on our portal, please check back in a few days.
Just the facts:
ROUND ROCK, Texas – (Business Wire) Dell today announced availability of the Dell EqualLogic PS6000 series of storage arrays that offer customers increased performance, advanced virtualization capabilities and even greater value than previous generations. To help enterprises preserve and extend their existing investments, the EqualLogic PS6000 series integrates seamlessly into existing EqualLogic storage area networks (SANs) to form a virtualized pool of storage. The new Dell EqualLogic hardware and software, which are a part of Dell’s broad storage portfolio that includes the Dell PowerVault and Dell|EMC product lines, help enterprises easily enhance existing installations.
In addition to product advancements such as solid state drives (SSDs) and an expanded, all-inclusive EqualLogic software suite, Dell also unveiled new Dell ProConsult* infrastructure consulting services to help customers plan and deploy EqualLogic SANs.
The News:
- Dell announced five new EqualLogic PS6000 series of storage arrays – PS6000E, PS6500E, PS6000X, PS6000XV and PS6000S. The new products combine a virtualized storage architecture and sophisticated management software with new high-performance hardware components designed to help customers lower costs, reduce complexity and free up resources.
- The Dell EqualLogic PS6000 series:
- Performs up to 91 percent faster for sequential write workloads and up to 29 percent faster for sequential read workloads when compared with previous generation1.
- Is the first EqualLogic generation to include a Solid State Drive array. The PS6000S delivers SSD technology at an affordable price so more enterprises can practically apply its performance benefits for their critical applications. PS6000S arrays each have dedicated controllers for the SSD drives and can be combined together to scale performance linearly.
- Can support over 500 TB of storage per PS Series group.
- Dell is significantly enhancing its all-inclusive suite of EqualLogic storage software. New support for Microsoft Hyper-V Smart Copysnapshots builds upon the PS Series’ existing integration with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, VMware and Citrix XenCenter and enables rapid recovery of Hyper-V virtual machines in as little as seconds. Additionally, the Dell EqualLogic PS6000 series of arrays are VMware vStorage-ready, a technology which aims to make more efficient use of storage, networking and hypervisor resources by virtual machines.
- Dell is also making available SAN Headquarters, a centralized dashboard that monitors performance and events for dozens of PS Series groups. SAN HeadQuarters is available to all Dell EqualLogic customers under a valid warranty or service agreement no additional cost.
- New Dell ProConsult* (Dell ProConsulting Services in EMEA) and expanded Dell ProSupport consulting and customer service offerings are now available to help customers and partners plan, deploy and protect storage investments. In addition to existing storage assessment and migration services Dell is bringing to select markets four new Dell ProConsult design and implementation services that help customers get the most of their EqualLogic investments.
- As previously announced, the addition of the Dell NX4 to the company’s broad portfolio of EqualLogic, PowerVault and Dell|EMC storage solutions expands the range of products Dell can offer its customers and demonstrates the two companies continued commitment to their long-standing partnership. The product offers no-compromise availability and advanced file management for Windows, Linux, and UNIX environments, as well as the flexibility to consolidate file and application storage via iSCSI or Fibre Channel.
Quotes:
- “With the new EqualLogic PS6000 series, Dell has delivered platform and information management advancements that allow our customers to meet growing storage needs in a simple and cost-effective way,” said Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage, Dell. “Features such as solid state discs, all-inclusive monitoring tools like SAN Headquarters, and seamless integration with prior SAN generations, are differentiating Dell from the other storage vendors and delivering on our promise of simple, capable, affordable storage.”
- “While storage remains one of the few bright spots across the IT landscape, it is clearly not immune to the realities of the day,” said Steve Duplessie, Founder of ESG. “Cutting operating costs is paramount and gaining efficiency everywhere you can is all that matters. This is exactly why we are seeing accelerated interest in technologies such as iSCSI, and for Dell specifically, as they just keep on adding more and more value to their EqualLogic line while effectively lowering the real cost of owning and operating their systems. This is nothing but good for Dell.”
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Now that Dell has successfully acquired EqualLogic we thought it might be nice to have an area where EqualLogic customers can share their knowledge and experiences in a Sales Free environment.
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