Dell Storage PS6610 Series Arrays

More capacity and performance

Increase capacity and improve performance with an ultra-dense array for midsized deployments.

SKU
Storage-PS6610

Specification 

Operating System

  • Operating systems and hypervisors: 
    Microsoft® Windows Server® 
    including Hyper-V® 
    VMware® ESX Server™ 
    Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 
    SUSE® Enterprise Linux® (SLES) 
    Oracle® Linux 
    Citrix® XenServer®

Expansion Capacity

  • Can be combined with other PS Series arrays in the same SAN group, online. Up to 16 total arrays per 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: 
    Management network: 
    One 100BASE-TX dedicated management per controller 

    Interface ports: 
    Two 10GBASE-T with RJ45 and two 10GbE SFP+ for fibre or twin-ax copper cabling

Physical

  • Height: 
    5U / 22.23cm (8.8in) 

    Width: 
    48.26cm (19in) 

    Depth: 
    91.44cm (36in) 

    Weight: 
    130.7kg (287.5lb) (max config)

Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Security

  • CHAP authentication
    Access control for iSCSI
    Access control for management interfaces including Active Directory, LDAP, or RADIUS support Common Criteria Certification with FW 7.1.1

Controller

  • Dual controllers with 32GB non-volatile memory per controller

Environmental Operating Conditions

  • Temperature range: 
    10 to 35°C / 50 to 95°F 

    Storage temperature: 
    -40 to 65°C / -40 to 149°F 

    Altitude: 
    maximum altitude of 12,000m (39,370ft) 

    Inlet type: 
    0 to 3,048m (0 to 10,000ft) 
    NOTE: Up to 35°C / 95°F maximum temperature is reduced by 1°C/300m (1°F/547ft) above 950m (3,117ft) 

    Operating relative humidity: 
    10% to 80% (noncondensing) with 29°C (84.2°F) maximum dew point 

    Non-operating relative humidity: 
    5% to 95% (noncondensing) with 33°C (91°F) maximum dew point 

    Operational shock: 
    5g 10ms ½ sine operational – done for XYZ axis 

    Non-operational shock: 
    20g 10ms ½ sine, for X and Y axis 

    Non-operational shock: 
    30g 10ms ½ sine for Z axis only 

    Vibration: 
    Random 21grms @ 5-500Hz operational / Random 1.04grms 2-200Hz non-operational 

    Acoustics: 
    LwA 8.0Bels 

    Air Quality: 
    Airborne contaminant level of G2 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985

Power

  • Dual 2800W, 200-240VAC, 50/60Hz (high AC line power source only)

Management

  • 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 

    SAN Headquarters multi-group performance and event monitoring tool 

    Serial console 

    Ability to configure a separate management network 

    SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, Web (SSL), host scripting 

    Multi-administrator support

Maximum Usable Capacity

  • Drive Capacities: 
    PS6610E:
     
    2TB, 4TB, 6TB NL-SAS drives 

    PS6610X: 
    600GB, 900GB, 1.2TB SAS drives 

    PS6610ES: 
    400GB, 800GB SSD and 2TB, 4TB NL-SAS drives 

    System Capacities: 
    PS6610E: 
    Up to 504TB
     
    PS6610X: 
    Up to 100.8TB 

    PS6610ES: 
    Up to 291.2TB

Storage

  • Unified storage: 
    Adding an FS7600 or FS7610 NAS appliance to PS Series group enables both block and file storage from a single storage solution.

Hard Drive

  • Hard Disk Drives: 
    PS6610E:
     
    42 x 2TB, 4TB, or 6TB or 84 x 4TB or 6TB hot-pluggable 3.5” 7.2K RPM NL-SAS drives 

    PS6610X: 
    84 x 600GB, or 42 or 84 x 900GB or 1.2TB hot-pluggable 2.5” 10K RPM SAS drives 

    PS6610ES: 
    14 hot-pluggable 2.5” SSDs and 
    70 hot-pluggable 3.5” 7.2K RPM NL-SAS drives 

    Self Encrypting Drives (SED): 
    PS6610E: 
    4TB NL-SAS SEDs in the 84 drive configuration 

    PS6610X: 
    1.2TB SAS SEDs in the 84 drive configuration
     
    PS6610ES: 
    N/A

Reliability

  • Redundant hot-swappable controllers 
    Hot-swappable disks and power supplies

RAID

  • PS6610E, PS6610X: 
    RAID 6, RAID 10 

    PS6610ES: 
    RAID 6 Accelerated

Notification Methods

  • SAN Headquarters alerting including Dell SupportAssist, SNMP traps, email, syslog

Technical Highlights

  • Snapshots: 
    512 per volume / up to 10,000 total per group 

    Volume connections per PS series group: 
    Up to 1024 per pool / 4,096 per group 

    Host Protocol: 
    Any standards-compliant iSCSI initiator

Recommended Support

  • Dell ProSupport Plus for critical systems or Dell ProSupport for premium hardware and software support are recommended to provide you the right support services for your PS Series solution. Contact your Dell representative today for more information.

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
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