Server Consolidation with Virtualization

Server Consolidation with Virtualization

The ever-increasing demand for IT processing means data centers are sprawling out of control. With each new server deployed, you incur additional acquisition costs, increase your power and cooling costs, and use more of your data center real estate. Meanwhile, the typical data center server runs at only about 15 percent utilization.

Consolidating your servers through server virtualization can slow (or reverse) the sprawl, reduce costs, improve utilization and help you regain control of your IT. You may even be able to avoid or delay adding additional data centers.

By decoupling your server workloads from your server hardware — by virtualizing your servers — you can move multiple workloads onto fewer, more powerful servers. You can retire unneeded server hardware and gain immense advantages in flexibility, scalability and data center automation.

We can help you get there. Dell PowerEdge™ servers are designed with virtualization in mind, and Dell IT Consulting Services has the experience and expertise to help you successfully take advantage of the virtual era.

Featured Case Studies

  • Crutchfield

    Crutchfield

    Crutchfield Corp. cuts its heat output by approximately 50 percent, saves six figures and improves its IT agility by using Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V on Dell systems.

Virtualization Consulting Services

Dell provides complete virtualization consulting services that include infrastructure assessment, planning, training and on-site installation and integration.

Recommended Software

Match industry leading hypervisors and management software to your unique needs.

  • Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

    Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

    Hyper-V provides partitioning for virtual machines. Hyper-V supports 32-bit and 64-bit Virtual Memory systems running side by side. Dell has certified all three versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, increasing your flexibility.

  • Dell and VMware: Server Virtualization

    Dell and VMware: Server Virtualization

    Dell and VMware deliver efficient data centers that are fast to deploy, easy to manage and can evolve into more cloud-like virtual infrastructures.

  • Citrix Essentials for XenServer Dell Edition

    Citrix Essentials for XenServer Dell Edition

    Citrix Essentials for XenServer Dell Edition is based on the open source Xen hypervisor, which delivers near-native performance.

Recommended Systems

Dell PowerEdge Servers

Simplify implementation and management, and provide maximum flexibility and performance using Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers designed specifically for virtualization.

  • PowerEdge M910 Blade Server

    PowerEdge M910 Blade Server

    The PowerEdge M910 brings a new level of virtualization performance and scalability to Dell blades, allowing up to four Intel Xeon 7500 series processors and up to 512GB of RAM in a Blade server.

  • PowerEdge R810 Rack Server

    PowerEdge R810 Rack Server

    Increase memory scalability without cost penalty. FlexMem Bridge technologies allow two processors to access 32 DIMMS delivering the memory scalability for all demanding virtualization workloads.

  • PowerEdge R710

    PowerEdge R710

    The Dell virtualization powerhouse, the R710 two-socket, 2U rack server efficiently blends processing technology, memory capacity and I/O (input/output) scalability for virtualization performance.

Dell Storage

Choose from multiple shared storage platforms to enable advanced virtualization capabilities, including workload management, high availability and disaster recovery.

Dell Networking

Maximize throughput and port density with networking products built on open standards.

Configuration Resources

Business Ready Configurations

Get a pre-engineered, pre-built virtualization configuration that includes server, hypervisor, network, storage and management tools.

Supported Configurations

Dell's reference architectures result from rigorous testing of server, storage and software components to ensure a comprehensive virtualization solution, suited to your business needs.

  • Business-Ready Configuration Solution Guide: Dell Blades and vSphere

    Business-Ready Configuration Solution Guide: Dell Blades and vSphere

    This solution guide for Dell PowerEdge blade servers, Dell EqualLogic storage area network and VMware vSphere 4 provides detailed reference architecture for deploying and using VMware virtualization on Dell blades and Internet SCSI storage environments.

  • Dell/Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Reference Architecture

    Dell/Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Reference Architecture

    This Dell™ Virtualization Reference Architecture (RA) white paper describes Dell validated architectures for Windows Server 2008® Hyper‐V™, and is intended to provide sample virtualization configurations that can be used to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements.

  • Dell/Citrix XenServer Dell Edition Reference Architecture

    Dell/Citrix XenServer Dell Edition Reference Architecture

    This Dell™ Virtualization Reference Architecture (RA) white paper describes validated architectures for Dell|Citrix XenServer™ Dell Edition virtual infrastructures. The Virtualization RA is intended to provide customers with an example basis to consider, evaluate, and select the Dell virtualization solution components that best fit their requirements.

Technical Resources

Get the most out of your investment using our tactical guidance and best practices guides.