Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 Blade Array Series

Storage for a converged blade solution.

Consolidate storage, blade servers and networking into a scalable, virtualized data center with the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS-M4110 Blade Array.

SKU
PS-M4110

Specification 

Expansion Capacity

  • Can be combined with other PS Series arrays in the same SAN group online. A maximum of two PS-M4110 blade arrays can be in a group, up to four blade arrays per blade chassis. Additionally, the PS-M4110 can scale outside blade chassis to traditional PS Series arrays for up to sixteen in a SAN group. Additionally, PS and SC Series offer common management and cross-platform replication capabilities between arrays, providing PS Series customers the flexibility to add SC Series arrays to their environment, if and when they choose.

Networking

  • TCP network support:
    IPv4, IPv6 compliant. USGv6 certified.

    Network interfaces:
    Redundant 10Gb connections available through Fabric A or B

Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Security

  • CHAP authentication
    Access control for iSCSI
    Access control for management interfaces including RADIUS support
    IPSEC
    SED
    Common Criteria Certification with FW 7.1.1

Controller

  • Dual controllers with 2GB non-volatile memory per controller

Power

  • Wattage: 450W

    Voltage: 12VDC

    Max Power input: 450W

    Input Current: 37.5A

    Typical Power:
    PS-M4110E: 248.9W
    PS-M4110X: 261.0W
    PS-M4110XV: 293.3W
    PS-M4110XS: 230.4W

Management

  • Dell Chassis Management Console (CMC) integration Dell Storage Manager (DSM):
    Allows you to perform day-to-day tasks across SC and PS Series arrays from a single management interface PS Series Group Manager PS Series SAN Headquarters multigroup performance and event monitoring tool
    Serial console
    Ability to configure a separate management network SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, web (SSL), host scripting
    Multiadministrator support

Maximum Usable Capacity

  • Drive capacities:
    PS-M4110E: 
    1TB 7.2K NL-SAS or NL-SAS SED

    PS-M4110X: 
    600GB, 900GB, or 1.2TB 10K SAS or SAS SED (SED 1.2TB)

    PS-M4110XV: 
    300GB, 600GB 15K SAS or 300GB SAS SED

    PS-M4110XS: 
    600GB or 1.2TB 10K SAS + 400GB or 800GB SSD

    System capacities:
    PS-M4110E: 
    14TB using fourteen (14) 1TB 7.2K NL-SAS drives or SEDs

    PS-M4110X: 
    8.4TB using fourteen (14) 600GB 10K SAS drives
    12.6TB using fourteen (14) 900GB 10K SAS drives or SEDs
    16.8TB using fourteen (14) 1.2TB 10K SAS drives

    PS-M4110XV: 

    4.2TB using fourteen (14) 300GB 15K SAS drives or SEDs
    8.4TB using fourteen (14) 600GB 15K SAS drives

    PS-M4110XS: 
    14.8TB using the allotted configuration
    Nine (9) 10K SAS drives and five (5) SSDs

Chassis

  • Physical:
    Half-height, double-wide storage blade

    Height:
    189 mm (7.44 inches)

    Width:
    102 mm (4.015 inches)

    Depth:
    515 mm (20.275 inches)

    Weight:
    PS-M4110E: 
    27.54 lb (12.49 kg)
    PS-M4110X: 
    28.38 lb (12.87 kg)
    PS-M4110XV: 
    27.82 lb (12.62 kg)
    PS-M4110XS: 
    27.82 lb (12.62 kg)

Hard Drive

  • Hard disk drives:

    PS-M4110E, PS-M4110X, PS-M4110XV:

    Fourteen 2.5" hot-pluggable hard disk drives

    PS-M4110XS:

    Nine 10K SAS +

Reliability

  • Redundant hot-swappable controllers and hot-swappable disks, redundant network path via internal fabric wiring in M1000e chassis, redundant fans and power supplies provided by M1000e chassis

RAID

  • PS-M4110E, PS-M4110X, PS-M4110XV:
    RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 501

    PS-M4110XS:

    RAID 6 accelerated

Notification Methods

  • SNMP traps, email, syslog

Technical Highlights

  • Volumes:
    Up to 256 per array/up to 512 per blade array-only group

    Snapshots:

    128 per volume/up to 2048 per blade array-only group

    Volume connections per PS Series group:
    Up to 512 per pool/up to 1024 per blade array-only group

    Host protocol:
    Any standards-compliant Internet SCSI (iSCSI) initiators.

    OS supported:
    Microsoft Windows Server® including Hyper-V®
    VMware® ESX Server™
    Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL)
    SUSE® Enterprise Linux® (SLES)
    Oracle® Linux®
    Citrix® XenServer®

Enclosure Monitoring System

  • Automatic spare configuration and utilization
    SMART
    Automatic bad block replacement
    Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System (ADMS) to monitor health of data on disk drives

Additional Features

  • Dependencies on other components:
    Blade enclosure: PowerEdge M1000e

    Blade I/O modules: Dell Networking MXL 10/40GbE blade switch, PowerConnect M8024-k, M8428-k and 10Gb

    Ethernet Pass-Through-k modules with external switches

    Power supplies and fans: Supplied by Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure

    Rack support: See Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosure
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