The Smarter, Faster Route to Virtualization: vStart

Although you may want to reap the benefits of increased agility and cost savings by expanding virtualization within an organization, the complexity, resources and time associated with the effort present hurdles. Learn how you can reduce the time and complexities of implementing virtualization for both the core infrastructure and remote sites using Dell™ vStart™, a prebuilt, preconfigured, pretested and preassembled virtualization solution that contains all the hardware, software and essential management plug-ins. The Dell vStart virtualization solution provides benefits in a range of organizational scenarios, including:

• Deploying or expanding virtualization
• Remote and branch offices
• Disaster recovery
• Application hosting

 Dell vStart leverages existing technology consoles, such as VMware® vCenter™ to manage the underpinning components to eliminate a learning curve and facilitate fast productivity. With vStart, you receive the entire virtual infrastructure, including:

• PowerEdge™ servers
• EqualLogic™ storage
• Dell Management tools
• PowerConnect™ switches
• Deployment services
• Three years of Dell ProSupport™ service

 Currently, vStart is offered in three configurations — vStart 50, vStart 100 and vStart 200. These configurations are distinguished by their compute and storage capacity, and their support for either the VMware® vSphere™ or Microsoft® Hyper-V® hypervisor. The technology is delivered together with installation services, so your system can be up and running quickly. The vStart solution is designed to scale both horizontally and vertically. If you need additional capacity, you can add more servers or storage arrays easily, or hook up multiple vStart solutions.