EqualLogic Magazine Product Reviews

EqualLogic's iSCSI SAN hits storage management high notes
PS3800XV is easy to configure, blazingly fast, and manages dissimilar arrays with aplomb
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February 26, 2007

"Fully featured and blazingly fast, this SAS-based array will easily find a home in infrastructures of any size... For virtualization implementations, you can't do better than a PS3800XV."

EqualLogic PS3800XV win's Editors Choice
November, 2007

UK's IT Pro magazine gave the PS3800XV the "Editor's Choice" honour in this product review, which praised the system for its ability to support transactional applications such as email and databases.

Netherlands: Computable
SAN-oplossing nu eenvoudig in beheer
Test: EqualLogic iSCSI SAN-oplossingen
February 16, 2007

"De Amerikaanse firma EqualLogic bestaat sinds 2001 en stelt zich tot doel iSCSI SAN-oplossingen te bieden met een zo eenvoudig mogelijk beheer. Via opslagvirtualisatie tracht het bedrijf de complexiteit van SAN op te vangen. Wij testten of Equa Logic daarin is geslaagd."

Translated excerpt: "This is the first time we have ever been unable to completely load a storage system using our benchmark test. As such, these EqualLogic arrays are the fastest we have ever tested."

UK: PC Pro
EqualLogic PS300E - PC Pro Recommended
February 2006

"Verdict: iSCSI comes of age with an appliance that delivers a huge storage capacity, easy expansion, top performance, plus total fault tolerance, and all at a price that compares extremely well with Fibre Channel products."

UK: TechWorld
EqualLogic PS300E Review - TechWorld Recommended
Impressive iSCSI array ready for enterprise use
December 16, 2005

"Massive storage capacity, top notch iSCSI performance, high levels of fault tolerance, simple installation and configuration, well designed web management interface, easy to expand with demand"

EqualLogic PS Series as testbed SAN for blade and virtualized server reviews

Analysis: Next-Gen Blade Servers
Data Center Diet Plan
December 7, 2006

"We asked Dell, Egenera, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Rackable Systems and Sun to send a base system… to our new Green Bay, Wis., Real-World Labs®, where we had EqualLogic's new PS3800XV iSCSI SAN array and a Nortel 5510 48-port Gigabit Ethernet data-center switch online for testing."

Deep dive into VMware's virtual infrastructure
VI 3 swims through our server consolidation test, demonstrating some amazing capabilities
December 11, 2006

"... We brought the cluster together by carving a 600GB LUN from the available storage pool on the EqualLogic SAN..."

Netherlands: Storage Magazine
Test: VMware vergroot voorsprong in virtualisatie
February 2007

Virtualisatie staat bij veel IT-beheerders sterk in de belangstelling vanwege de mogelijke kostenbesparingen. Ook een hogere efficiency en bezettingsgraad van computersystemen in datacenters spelen hierin een rol. Vanuit dit perspectief verichtte Bram Dons een test van VirtualCenter van Vmware.

Translated excerpt: "The addition of iSCSI works flawlessly in combination with the VMware-certified, SAS-based EqualLogic PS3800XV, which performed optimally."