Dell - Business Ready Configuration

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Date: 08/06/2009

Dell Business Ready Configurations (BRC) for data centers are high-performance virtualization platforms that combine Dell’s innovative PowerEdge™ M-series blades and EqualLogic™ PS6000 storage area network (SAN), with Cisco^® Networking switches and VMware^® technology, to help you achieve an automated and efficient data center.

This configuration is designed for organizations that need to:

Dynamically scale computing and storage capacity
Minimize data center space and cut costs related to power and cooling, infrastructure administration and data management
Increase agility and efficiency by pooling and sharing IT resources and automating functions such as power management, workload balancing, high availability fail-over and disaster recovery

	Knowledge Base Business Ready Configuration for Data Centers with VMware Infrastructure 3 Solution Guide for Dell PowerEdge Blades, Dell EqualLogic Storage and VMware Infrastructure 3 Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blades Business Ready Configuration for Data Centers with VMware vSphere 4 Solution Guide for Dell PowerEdge Blades, Dell EqualLogic Storage and VMware vSphere™ 4 Networking Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4 on Dell PowerEdge Blades Capacity Study of a Virtual Web-Server Farm

Business Ready Configurations Data Center

Knowledge Base

Business Ready Configuration for Data Centers with VMware Infrastructure 3

Business Ready Configuration for Data Centers with VMware vSphere 4

Entry Configuration	Medium Configuration	Large Configuration
Supports 10s of virtual machines Medium expandability 4 x highly available Dell PowerEdge M610 blades Single Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Internet SCSI (iSCSI) SANCisco Catalyst Blade Switch with 1GB uplinks Dell OpenManage and Novell PlateSpin Migrate	Supports 100s of virtual machines Medium expandability 6 x highly available Dell PowerEdge M610 blades Dual Dell EqualLogic PS6000 iSCSI SANCisco Catalyst Blade Switch with 1GB uplinks Dell OpenManage and Novell PlateSpin Migrate	Supports 100s of virtual machines Highest virtual machine scalability 10 x highly available Dell PowerEdge M610 blades Dual Dell EqualLogic PS6000 iSCSI SANCisco Catalyst Blade Switch with 10GB uplinks Dell OpenManage and Novell PlateSpin Migrate
Entry Configuration with VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Enterprise	Medium Configuration with VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Enterprise	Large Configuration with VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Enterprise
Entry Configuration with VMware vSphere 4	Medium Configuration with VMware vSphere 4	Large Configuration with VMware vSphere 4