Dell-EqualLogic have announced 10Gigabit variants of their entire 6000 and 6500 Series of PeerStorage arrays. Dubbed the 6010 (16-bay) and 6510 (48-bay) they feature 2 x 10GbE ports per controller and support multipath for load balancing and failover.
This essentially removes what fibre channel vendors have been pitching forever as their trump card: bandwidth. If you’ve put up with FC’s compatibility issues, high price and learning curve simply to get more lanes of traffic, your time to switch has come.
…and because its an EqualLogic, you can rest assured these new arrays are 100% compatible with every other array they’ve ever made.
Give us a shout if you’d like any info or pricing (pricing of the 6510 won’t be available until January)
