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Virtualization made easy.
Quickly deploy a virtualization solution for your small to midsize business with preassembled vStart 50, now with Dell™ 12th generation PowerEdge™ servers.
Accelerate time-to-value.
Rapidly deploy a preconfigured virtualization infrastructure for your small or midsize business without assembly, testing and other tasks requiring specialized IT skills.
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Drive efficiency and help lower risk.
Expedite demanding workloads with the improved performance of Dell 12th generation PowerEdge™ servers.
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Provide uncomplicated scalability.
Rely on a solution designed to scale with your growing and changing needs.
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Rapidly deploy a preconfigured virtualization infrastructure for your small or midsize business without assembly, testing and other tasks requiring specialized IT skills.
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Drive efficiency and help lower risk.
Expedite demanding workloads with the improved performance of Dell 12th generation PowerEdge™ servers.
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Provide uncomplicated scalability.
Rely on a solution designed to scale with your growing and changing needs.
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Leverage Microsoft® or VMware virtualization platforms.
Choose VMware® vSphere™ or Microsoft® Hyper-V virtualization platforms for full-virtualization infrastructure and application hosting.
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The vStart advantage
Take full advantage of additional vStart features as you deploy vStart 50, whether you are initiating a new data center or building onto your established infrastructure.
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Choose VMware® vSphere™ or Microsoft® Hyper-V virtualization platforms for full-virtualization infrastructure and application hosting.
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The vStart advantage
Take full advantage of additional vStart features as you deploy vStart 50, whether you are initiating a new data center or building onto your established infrastructure.
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Global services and support
Dell Services can help reduce IT complexity, lower costs and eliminate inefficiencies by making IT and business solutions work harder for you. The Dell Services team delivers distinctive capabilities, including full data migration solutions to facilitate consolidation from multiple file systems. Dell takes a holistic view of your needs and designs solutions for your environment and business objectives, and uses established delivery methods, local talent and in-depth domain knowledge to help lower your total cost of ownership.
Dell Services can help reduce IT complexity, lower costs and eliminate inefficiencies by making IT and business solutions work harder for you. The Dell Services team delivers distinctive capabilities, including full data migration solutions to facilitate consolidation from multiple file systems. Dell takes a holistic view of your needs and designs solutions for your environment and business objectives, and uses established delivery methods, local talent and in-depth domain knowledge to help lower your total cost of ownership.
Software summary
Dell PowerEdge R620 rack server provides the core virtualization platform for the vStart 50, offering concentrated computing power in a 2-socket, 1U form factor. It can maximize computing power in space-sensitive environments.
For more information on Dell PowerEdge R620 servers, click here
For more information on Dell PowerEdge R420 servers, click here
Storage summary
The Dell EqualLogic PS6110X storage array provides virtualized 10GbE Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) storage that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, seamless scalability, and enterprise performance and reliability.
Dell PowerConnect 7024 GbE switches are Layer 3 scalable top-of-rack switches that offer you the power and flexibility you need for today and the future. They offer advanced switching capabilities that include standard high-density 10GbE uplinks (1GbE uplinks also supported), high-performance stacking, high redundancy and availability, and they are scalable from the small business to the data center edge. The PowerConnect 7024 features:
Summary of other required integration elements
- Hypervisor (options)
• VMware® vSphere™ ESXi 5.0
• Microsoft® Windows Server® Hyper-V™ 2012 (Microsoft® Fast Track 3.0 certified) - Management
• Dell Management Plug-in for VMware® vCenter™
• Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for VMware (HIT/VE) Plug-in for vCenter
• EqualLogic SAN Headquarters
Dell PowerEdge R620 rack server provides the core virtualization platform for the vStart 50, offering concentrated computing power in a 2-socket, 1U form factor. It can maximize computing power in space-sensitive environments.
- Standard vStart 50 solution configuration includes two ESXi virtual servers with a total of 32 processor cores (Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processor) and 128GB* of memory.
- Dual NICs provide full redundancy and highly available interconnects for vStart 50. Each NIC offers impressive I/O (input/output) capabilities with balanced, scalable features, including integrated PCIe Gen3-enabled expansion slots and choice of embedded NIC technology.
- Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC 7) Enterprise Edition provides out-of-band server management.
For more information on Dell PowerEdge R620 servers, click here
For more information on Dell PowerEdge R420 servers, click here
Storage summary
The Dell EqualLogic PS6110X storage array provides virtualized 10GbE Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) storage that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, seamless scalability, and enterprise performance and reliability.
- Standard configuration includes 24 hot-pluggable 2.5” 300GB* 10K rpm Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, with total system capacity of up to 7.2TB.* The system also supports 15K rpm SAS drives and 7.2K rpm NL-SAS drives.
- Fault-tolerant capabilities are supported through fully redundant and hot-swappable components (dual 10GbE controllers, disk drives with hot spares and dual power supplies).
- Dual controllers with multipathing offer high availability (SPF+ and 10GBASE-T port options).
Dell PowerConnect 7024 GbE switches are Layer 3 scalable top-of-rack switches that offer you the power and flexibility you need for today and the future. They offer advanced switching capabilities that include standard high-density 10GbE uplinks (1GbE uplinks also supported), high-performance stacking, high redundancy and availability, and they are scalable from the small business to the data center edge. The PowerConnect 7024 features:
- Up to 160 Mbps throughput and a data rate of up to 224 Gbps (full duplex) for both Layer 2 and Layer 3 environments.
- Simple management and scalability through a 128 Gbps high-availability stacking architecture that allows you to manage up to 12 switches from a single IP address. Share the upgradeable 10GbE ports across the stack for uplinks to the next network layer.
- Power-saving Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az) ports that can reduce per-port power consumption to help lower electricity and cooling costs.
Summary of other required integration elements
- Database compatible with VMware vCenter or Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- Network routing
Support services
Dell ProSupport is included with every vStart 50
vStart 50 Assistance and Consulting Service (available for both VMware and Microsoft versions)
This service includes:
For virtualization
For EqualLogic
Dell ProSupport is included with every vStart 50
- Dell ProSupport* offers next-business-day onsite service after remote diagnosis on each blade chassis, server and switch during Limited Hardware Warranty* period.
- Phone- and internet-based consultation, configuration and management support is available from Dell specialists.
- Installation of individual components (servers, storage, network, UPS) into the rack
- Cabling of all components as per specifications
- Installation, configuration and knowledge transfer provided for VMware® ESX; VMware® vCenter™ and the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter; Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for VMware Plug-In for vCenter™; or Microsoft® Windows Server® Hyper-V™ and Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- Installation, configuration and knowledge transfer provided for Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters
vStart 50 Assistance and Consulting Service (available for both VMware and Microsoft versions)
- Design service driven by categorization of source workloads
- Health check of existing virtualization platform
- Workload migration planning and execution
- Virtualization Operational Readiness Assessment
- One-to-one presale consulting with a Dell representative
- Outlines Dell strategy and reviews your needs
- One-to-one presale consulting with a Dell representative
- Outlines Dell strategy and reviews your needs
- On-site server inventory and infrastructure assessment for virtualization
- One-week on-site training to help reduce platform TCO, simplify service administration and increase system availability
- Includes up to 15 physical-to-virtual migrations
- Comprehensive review of your journey to the cloud
This service includes:
- Inventory of networking element asset report
- Identifying out-of-date network devices and resources
- Network infrastructure score cards based on industry best practices, utilization statistics and alternative consolidation scenarios. Also includes a blueprint of your current environment in relation to best practices
- Recommendations founded on industry trends in data center networking standards and application performance improvement
For virtualization
- Training for VMware software components, where available
- Training for Microsoft software components, where available
For EqualLogic
- Dell EqualLogic administration and advanced management training