Business-Ready Configurations

Virtualization is an essential strategy for increasing IT efficiency. Dell can help drive the cost and complexity out of implementing a virtual infrastructure. This approach can accelerate a fast return on the resulting cost and efficiency benefits.

To make it easier, to make the transition to virtualization, Dell has created pre-built virtualization configurations that work with various IT environments. These configurations can help you build a dynamic and efficient virtualized infrastructure from the server and hypervisor to the network, storage systems and management toolsets.

You can deploy these architectures into production environments quickly and confidently, because they are based on extensive engineering using end-to-end solution design and certification processes. We've done the work in advance, so you can avoid the trial and error common in complex infrastructure implementations.

Dell Business-Ready Configurations:

  • Simplify the design, ordering and deployment for your virtual infrastructure
  • Help ensure integration is complete and ready for production
  • Include best practices recommendations, guidelines and consideration for server workloads, networks and storage systems
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  1. Business Ready Configuration Small Environments

    Business-Ready Configurations for Small, Medium and Remote Environments

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    Learn about Dell Business-Ready Configurations with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 featuring Hyper-V for small, medium and remote environments.

  2. VMware vSphere™ Business Ready Configurations for Small and Medium Business

    VMware vSphere Business-Ready Configurations for Small and Medium Business

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    Learn about Dell Business-Ready Configurations for VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus and Advanced Edition for small and medium business.

  3. Business Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Blades, Fibre Channel

    Business-Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Blade Servers, 10GbE iSCSI

    12 Jan 2011

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    Learn about tested architectures for Hyper-V environments with Dell blade servers and 10 GbE Dell EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage. Get high-density memory configurations ideal for virtual desktops and high VM-per-server consolidation ratios.

  4. VMware vSphere™ Business Ready Configurations for Small and Medium Business

    Business-Ready Configurations: vSphere 4, Rack Servers, 10 GbE iSCSI Boot

    13 Dec 2010

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    Build a next-generation VMware vSphere solution with Dell PowerEdge blade servers and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage with iSCSI boot technology.

  5. Business Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Blades, Fibre Channel

    Business-Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Rack Servers, PowerVault iSCSI

    10 Nov 2010

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    Explore recommended architectures for building Hyper-V environments with Dell rack servers and Dell PowerVault Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage. Get best practices recommendations for server, network and storage area network (SAN) design.

  6. Business Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Blades, Fibre Channel

    Business-Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Rack Servers, 10 GbE iSCSI

    23 Sep 2010

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    Explore tested architectures for building Hyper-V environments with Dell rack servers and 10 GbE Dell EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage. iSCSI offers a high-speed, easily routable server-to-storage fabric ideal for virtualized environments.

  7. Business Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Blades, Fibre Channel

    Business-Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Rack Servers, iSCSI Storage

    13 Aug 2010

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    Explore recommended architecture for building Hyper-V environments with Dell rack servers and Dell EqualLogic Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage. Get best practices recommendations for server, network and storage area network (SAN) design.

  8. VMware vSphere™ Business Ready Configurations for Small and Medium Business

    Business-Ready Configurations: Blade Servers and 10 Gb iSCSI Storage

    19 Apr 2010

    Build a next-generation VMware vSphere solution with Dell PowerEdge blade servers and 10 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI storage. Learn the advantages of a converged network fabric made possible by a high-throughput iSCSI storage architecture.

  9. Business-Ready Configurations: Resources for Retired Configurations

    01 Jun 2009

    Access solution guides and other supporting information for business-ready configurations that have been retired.