Peer Provisioning
Self-Managing Storage with Seamless Scaling
With the Dell EqualLogic PS Series’ peer provisioning intelligence and modular design you can quickly and easily expand storage capacity online, without affecting data availability. You can add arrays or disks to increase capacity, performance, and network bandwidth automatically – performance increases linearly as you grow. Since peer provisioning automates all key functions required to configure, manage, and scale storage, much of the complexity of storage management is eliminated, and management remains simple as you scale. New disks and arrays are automatically configured and immediately participate in balancing workloads and distributing data, without user intervention.
Advanced thin provisioning capability is also included in PS Series arrays, enabling you to automatically add capacity on demand up to preset limits. This feature makes buy-as-you-grow storage management and virtualization seamless for servers and applications. Administrators gain flexibility along with user safety controls – the PS Series includes proactive, user-defined threshold alarms and controls on automatic space allocation to guard against unexpectedly reaching allocation limits. Advanced thin provisioning offers significant business benefits such as increased utilization of storage assets, less time spent managing and provisioning storage, reduced floor space footprint, lower power and cooling costs, and smarter, more efficient capital expense since you can buy physical storage only when it is needed.
The PS Series’ peer provisioning delivers a scale-out storage architecture that finally meets the needs of CIO’s and IT administrators. Unlike DAS, NAS, frame-based SAN, and other non-virtualized SAN solutions that create islands of storage as they are scaled out beyond their limited capabilities, EqualLogic PS Series SANs with peer provisioning transparently and optimally grow as a single, completely balanced storage deployment. The result is a SAN solution that eliminates the traditional static, resource intensive storage management infrastructure, replacing it with an easy-to-administer, seamlessly scalable environment. This frees up scarce IT budget dollars and critical administrator time, allowing you to focus on applications and provide better IT solutions for your business.