Software

Dell offers hypervisor options from market leaders and specialized software options to extend your solution's capabilities.

VMware® vSphere™ offers a robust and full-featured virtualization platform. Data centers of all sizes rely on vSphere to provide reliability and flexibility for their mission-critical applications. Dell helps extend this functionality with the Dell™ Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter™. This tool compresses tasks and brings various management processes for Dell servers, such as firmware updates and bare metal deployment, into the VMware vCenter Server management console — the standard for VMware virtualization management.

Citrix® XenServer™ offers basic partitioning and live migration capabilities and integrates its XenCenter™ multiserver management console into every virtualized server. You can add third-party offerings to augment functionality.

Microsoft® Hyper-V™ offers quick migration, high availability with Microsoft cluster services, easy integration into Microsoft management tools and compatibility with Xen®-based virtual machines.

Extend the capabilities of your virtual environment beyond hypervisors with specialized software from Dell virtualization management partners. Symantec™/Altiris™, Vizioncore™, Platform Computing, PlateSpin® and Double-Take® offer focused tools that you can use to simplify setup and migration, automate workload management, implement alternative disaster recovery strategies and more.
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  1. Streamlining network connectivity for agile data centers

    Streamlining network connectivity for agile data centers

    07 Apr 2011

    Administering routine network processes can take time away from critical tasks. Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) software automates network connectivity, reconfiguration, and workload retargeting to boost data center efficiency.

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    Building blocks for data center DNA

    07 Apr 2011

    By simplifying and automating deployment, provisioning and management processes for virtualized systems, the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture empowers end users to access the resources they need in minutes — rather than days or weeks.

  3. Managing virtualized data centers efficiently

    Managing virtualized data centers efficiently

    07 Apr 2011

    The widespread adoption of VMware virtualization has created many facets to managing data centers. The Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) software enables administrators to manage highly virtualized environments.

  4. Robust data protection in a virtual world

    Robust data protection in a virtual world

    01 Oct 2010

    Working with traditional backup tools in virtualized environments can be time-consuming and difficult. Symantec data protection software was designed with virtualization in mind—providing intelligent backups, granular file recovery, and more.

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    Managing the layers of a virtualized environment

    01 Oct 2010

    In virtualized environments, effective systems management encompasses much more than just virtual machines. Altiris Server Management Suite from Symantec enables a comprehensive approach to help streamline and simplify day-to-day operations.