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Dell is committed to enabling and empowering you to provide comprehensive virtualization solutions to your customers. Through enabling you to offer hardware designed with virtualization in mind and pre-packaging software or management capabilities. It’s all about helping you simplify your virtualization design, deployment and administration services to ensure overall project success and satisfaction for your customer(s). As you know, virtualization is all about helping your customers: |
Do more, with less
- Increase utilization of existing investments
- Decrease space, power and cooling requirements
- Save time on performing repetitive tasks
As for what is in it for you, our channel partner? Dell empowers you to help your customers: Realize the benefits of virtualization faster
- Dell hardware is designed, pre-packaged and pre-tested for virtualization
- Easier deployment and operations with embedded capabilities and management tools
- Bundle compelling planning, design, deployment or administrative virtualization services around our hardware, software while leveraging supporting technical and sales materials (e.g., reference architecture whitepapers, ROI calculators)
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Virtualization Optimized Hardware |
PowerEdge Servers
Dell’s Tower, Rack and Blade server portfolio include models that have been designed for virtualization solutions. These virtualization optimized server models offering significant increases in memory, faster I/O and come embedded with the operating systems and/or virtualization software (hypervisor) of choice. Dell is typically either the leader or a leading virtualization performance benchmark at VMmark.
 More details: Dell IT Virtualization Case Study
iSCSI Storage Solutions
Dell’s portfolio of iSCSI Storage Solutions are a natural fit with virtualization through connecting with existing Ethernet technology connected versus requiring proprietary Fibre Channel. Our Dell/EMC CX4, CX3 Series offers both technologies in single Storage Array while our Dell AX4-5i, EqualLogic PS Series and our PowerVault MD3000i and NX1950 all offer storage solutions exclusively through iSCSI.
More details: Virtualization and iSCSI Getting Started Guides |
Virtualization Software Partners |
VMware
It is the x86 software market pioneer and leader with a strong partner ecosystems while offering a comprehensive set of enterprise-class features and capabilities.
More details: Dell/VMware Reference Architecture – July 2009, Dell & VMware Reference Architecture – May 2009
Microsoft
For over two years Dell has been providing input on design and testing of Hyper-V. Since Hyper-V hypervisor-based technology is included in Windows Server 2008 as a feature, you and your customers can start using virtualization right away. Also, there is a significant Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) advantage around leveraging the virtualization solutions from Microsoft.
More Information: Dell and Microsoft
Citrix
Open-source, cost effective focused offering with a rich features set.
More Information: Dell & Citrix Reference Architecture |
Virtualization Management |
Dell Management Console
Powered by Altiris from Symantec, this comprehensive systems management solution seamlessly manages servers, clients, printer, network and storage systems, physical or virtual.
Microsoft Systems Center
System Center Management Suite is a comprehensive, windows-centric, management solution. Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007, Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 and Systems Center Virtual Machine Manger (SCVMM) 2008 all provide a variety of automation and monitoring capabilities for virtualization.
Dell PowerEdge Embedded Management
Tools available directly on each individual PowerEdge server to assist with provisioning functions and diagnostics locally. | 1
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