Business-Ready Configuration Solution Guide: Dell Blades and VMware 3

Explore a detailed reference architecture for deploying and using VMware® 3 virtualization with Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers and Dell EqualLogic™ Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs).

You can quickly and confidently deploy these engineering proven architectures into production environments, helping to eliminate much of the costly and time-consuming trial and error. The solution is optimally configured to run virtualized workloads and is designed to provide redundancy with no single point-of-failure, as well as scalability and manageability. It includes the network architectures, storage configurations and best practices necessary for deploying and configuring the solution. The solution will help you achieve the full benefits of VMware Infrastructure™, Dell PowerEdge blade servers and Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays.

The intended audience for this white paper is IT administrators, IT managers and channel partners who are planning to deploy VMware virtualization using Dell blade servers and Dell EqualLogic SAN. This white paper provides an overview of the recommended servers, storage, software and services. Use it to plan, scope and procure the required components to set up a virtualization infrastructure.