vStart: Drive agility and efficiency through virtualization and private clouds
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Dell vStart 200, 100 and 50 |
Reliability and scalability = value now and value later
Leveraging Dell’s extensive experience in virtualization solutions, vStart scales both vertically and horizontally and includes redundancies that give you a highly reliable platform. Dell vStart becomes your dedicated partner that grows with your growing needs. And unlike multivendor solutions, vStart gives you a single point of accountability through Dell’s world-class support organization.
Enable rapid virtualization with Dell vStart 200, 100 or 50
Powered by our 12th-generation PowerEdge rack-mounted servers, our Dell vStart virtualized infrastructure solutions give you proven, pre-engineered, prebuilt and pretested components — server, storage, network and management — that leverage VMware® vSphere™ and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization platforms. Integrated Dell Management Software lets you manage your infrastructure easily and without additional consoles or interfaces to learn, and our included initial Deployment Services get your system up and running right away.
vStart 1000: The enterprise-class solution for private clouds and mission-critical applications
Your business depends on your applications, and today’s resource-hungry applications can push the limits of your infrastructure. Take your data center to the next level with the control and customization that a pool of dedicated resources gives you. And put an end to the times when your staff waits days, or even weeks, to access the IT assets they need.
We’ve engineered vStart 1000 from the ground up to enable private clouds and host mission-critical applications. With top-of-the-line infrastructure — Dell PowerEdge blades, Dell Compellent Fibre Channel storage and Dell Force10 networking — vStart 1000 gives you a highly reliable, highly scaled, high-performance platform from which to drive your organization’s goals.
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| Dell vStart 1000 |
- Infrastructure as a service
- Self-service IT asset provisioning
- VM sprawl control
- Detailed audit reports, including showback
Dell vStart Case Studies
Software for vStart Solutions
Dell vStart solutions include all the software you need to run and manage your virtual infrastructure, from the most popular hypervisors to plug-ins that enable you to manage Dell hardware from within standard virtualization consoles.
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Dell and Microsoft: Data center virtualization
With Dell | Microsoft management and virtualization solutions, you can take an approach that simplifies virtualization management, reduces costs and removes barriers to cloud adoption.
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VMware and Dell: Server Virtualization
Dell and VMware deliver efficient data centers that are fast to deploy, easy to manage and can evolve into more cloudlike virtual infrastructures.
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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter
Monitor, manage, configure and deploy Dell servers from within vCenter and get comprehensive, unified management features for your virtualized infrastructure.
Learn more about Dell vStart
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Video: Introduction to Dell vStart Solutions
Get a look at how Dell vStart solutions can get you to a true virtual infrastructure faster and easier.
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Dell vStart Spec Sheet
Learn more about Dell vStart — innovative, all-in-one solutions for jump-starting your data center virtualization initiatives.
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Dell vStart 100/200 Technical Overview
Dig deeper into the underpinnings of the Dell vStart 100 and vStart 200 all-in-one virtualization solution configurations.
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Dell vStart 50
Get a complete all-in-one virtual infrastructure to support your smaller workloads — predesigned, preassembled and installed at your site.
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Dell vStart 100
Get a complete, all-in-one virtual infrastructure ready to support up to 100 virtual machines — pre-designed, pre-assembled and installed at your site.
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Dell vStart 200
Get a complete, all-in-one virtual infrastructure ready to support up to 200 virtual machines — predesigned, preassembled and installed at your site.
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Dell vStart 1000
Get a complete, all-in-one virtual infrastructure ready to support up to 1000 virtual machines — pre-designed, preassembled and installed at your site.


