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Business-Ready Solutions for Virtual Infrastructure Availability Using Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault Storage and VMware vSphere

Date : 7/16/2009
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Overview

The intended audience for this white paper includes IT administrators, IT managers and channel partners who are planning to implement server virtualization to run applications for which availability is a top concern. It is expected that the reader is well versed with fundamentals of server, storage and networking technologies and VMware® vSphere™ 4 server virtualization software.

This white paper presents an example configuration and best practices for deploying and configuring a highly available architecture using Dell™ 11th generation servers, Dell PowerVault™ MD3000i Internet Small Computer System Interface array, Dell PowerConnect™ switches and VMware vSphere 4 software. Within the constraints of infrastructure components, the solution discussed is designed in order to maximize availability of software and hardware infrastructure components.

Although this paper presents a sample architecture using Dell PowerEdge™ R710 servers, PowerVault MD3000i, PowerConnect switches and VMware vSphere 4 software, the design principles and availability features presented can be used to design a highly available infrastructure using other Dell servers.