Dell - Business Ready Configurations for Small, Medium and Remote Environments

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Dell’s Business Ready Configurations for Small, Medium and Remote Environments deliver a nondisruptive, cost-effective virtualization infrastructure for organizations that want the benefits of virtualization, but have limited budget and staff resources. Based on Microsoft^® Windows Server^® 2008 with Hyper-V™, these configurations are designed to help:

Simplify server, storage and data management
Reduce administration burden driven from technology transitions
Get maximum utilization from existing assets
Increase system availability through the use of Microsoft Failover Clustering

	Knowledge Base Solution Guide for Dell PowerEdge™ R710, Dell PowerVault™ MD3000i Storage and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V

Business Ready Configuration Small Environment

Knowledge Base

Solution Guide for Dell PowerEdge™ R710, Dell PowerVault™ MD3000i Storage and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V

Consolidation Configuration	High Availability Configuration	High Availability Plus Backup Configuration
Ideal for up to 14 Virtual Machines (VM)¹ ² Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition with Hyper-V Microsoft System Center Essentials Management Suite² which combines Microsoft System Center Essentials (SCE) 2007 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 2 x Dell PowerEdge R610 servers for management infrastructure	Ideal for up to 22 Highly Available Virtual Machines (VM)¹ ² High Availability through the use of Microsoft Failover Clustering 2 x Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition with Hyper-V Expandable up to 5 servers Redundant Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) Microsoft System Center Essentials Management Suite² which combines Microsoft System Center Essentials (SCE) 2007 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 2 x Dell PowerEdge R610 servers for management infrastructure	Ideal for up to 44 Highly Available Virtual Machines (VM)¹ ² High Availability through the use of Microsoft Failover Clustering 3 x Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition with Hyper-V Expandable up to 5 servers Redundant Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) Microsoft System Center Essentials Management Suite² which combines Microsoft System Center Essentials (SCE) 2007 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 2 x Dell PowerEdge R610 servers for management infrastructure Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Powered by Symantec^® Backup Exec™ for Disk to Disk and Disk to Tape Backup
		Note: The PowerVault DL2000 Powered by Symantec Backup Exec is not included in the online configuration tool. For more information on this product and pricing, please contact your Dell Sales Representative.

¹ VM counts assume 3GB of virtual memory, 30GB shared storage space and typical I/O requirements. Actual counts and performance may vary.

² Microsoft System Center Essentials Management Suite supports up to 500 PCs and up to 30 server OS instances. Customers supporting larger environments should consider Microsoft System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise.