Virtual-Ready Infrastructure — Business-Ready Configurations Solution Guide

The Business-Ready Configurations for Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell PowerConnect™ switches, Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) products and Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) provide a detailed reference architecture for deploying and using Dell AIM with Dell blade servers, switches and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage environments.

Based on extensive engineering work in architectural design and certification, these proven architectures can be quickly and confidently deployed into production environments to help eliminate much of the costly and time-consuming trial and error often encountered during complex infrastructure design and implementation. The solution is designed to provide a completely managed infrastructure with the ability to heal itself in the event of failure. The solution includes the network architectures, switch configurations, storage configurations and best practices necessary for deployment and configuration.

The Business-Ready Configurations solution can help you achieve the full benefits of Dell AIM, Dell PowerEdge blade servers, Dell PowerConnect network switches and Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays.