Business-Ready Configurations

Business-Ready Configurations for Small, Medium and Remote Environments

Dell™ Business-Ready Configurations for small, medium and remote environments deliver a nondisruptive, cost-effective virtualization infrastructure for organizations that want the benefits of virtualization, but have limited budget and staff resources. Based on Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V™, these configurations are designed to help:

  • Simplify server, storage and data management
  • Reduce administration burden driven from technology transitions
  • Get maximum utilization from existing assets
  • Increase system availability through the use of Microsoft Failover Clustering

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 Consolidation Configuration

 High-Availability Configuration

 High-Availability Plus Backup Configuration

  • Ideal for up to 14 virtual machines (VMs)¹
  • Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition with Hyper-V

  • Dell PowerEdge R410 server for infrastructure services with optional Dell PowerEdge R410 for solution management

  • Ideal for up to 22 highly available VMs¹

  • High availability through the use of Microsoft Failover Clustering

  • Two Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition with Hyper-V

  • Expandable up to five servers

  • Redundant Dell PowerVault MD3000i Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN)

  • Dell PowerEdge R410 servers for infrastructure services with optional Dell PowerEdge R410 for solution management

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Note:  The PowerVault DL2100 — powered by CommVault is not included in the online configuration tool. For more information on this product and pricing, please contact your Dell sales representative. 


¹ VM counts assume 3GB of virtual memory, 40GB shared storage space and typical I/O (input/output) requirements. Actual counts and performance may vary.