Deploy, manage and scale with ease
Active System 800 enables medium to large private cloud and business application deployments that are easily managed by IT administrators with multiple roles.
Accelerate IT responsiveness
Free IT from the time, effort and expense of designing, ordering, receiving, integrating, testing and deploying new virtual infrastructure and help drive fast time to value for your data center investments.
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Drive efficiency
Reduce the complexity and costs of operating your virtualized infrastructure while improving performance with validated interoperability, a converged fabric and lower power and cooling requirements.
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Lower risk
Leverage an integrated system that has been engineered with best practices for availability and scalability and is supported by a highly experienced global leader in virtualization solutions and services.
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Free IT from the time, effort and expense of designing, ordering, receiving, integrating, testing and deploying new virtual infrastructure and help drive fast time to value for your data center investments.
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Drive efficiency
Reduce the complexity and costs of operating your virtualized infrastructure while improving performance with validated interoperability, a converged fabric and lower power and cooling requirements.
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Lower risk
Leverage an integrated system that has been engineered with best practices for availability and scalability and is supported by a highly experienced global leader in virtualization solutions and services.
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Simplify infrastructure management
Streamline management across the entire infrastructure and workload lifecycle, from discovery and inventory through provisioning, ongoing maintenance and decommissioning of infrastructure and workload resources.
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Automated storage management
Help reduce time spent managing storage functions with the automated features of the EqualLogic peer-storage architecture.
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Deliver future-proof flexibility and scalability
Get a stable, high-performance infrastructure today that can flexibly meet future business expansion requirements.
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Streamline management across the entire infrastructure and workload lifecycle, from discovery and inventory through provisioning, ongoing maintenance and decommissioning of infrastructure and workload resources.
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Automated storage management
Help reduce time spent managing storage functions with the automated features of the EqualLogic peer-storage architecture.
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Deliver future-proof flexibility and scalability
Get a stable, high-performance infrastructure today that can flexibly meet future business expansion requirements.
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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.
Management Summary
Active System Manager 7.0* is an intuitive, workload-centric converged infrastructure manager designed for Active System environments, such as Active System 800. It streamlines management across the entire infrastructure lifecycle, from discovery and inventory through provisioning, ongoing maintenance and decommissioning of infrastructure and workload resources.
Overview
Active System Manager 7.0 provides an intuitive, automated, template-based experience for the deployment, orchestration and lifecycle management of physical and virtualized converged infrastructure. It streamlines management across the Active System 800, empowering IT to:- Rapidly respond to business needs: Enable IT to quickly onboard new infrastructure or rapidly reconfigure existing infrastructure, significantly speeding time to production for new workloads or scaling of resources for existing workloads.
- Maximize data center efficiency: Minimize the need for multiple consoles and empower IT with an automated, intuitive, single point of control for key infrastructure configuration and management functions.
- Strengthen quality of IT service delivery: Consistently deliver quality IT services as the data center grows through resource scheduling and consistent and repeatable deployment and management of physical and virtual infrastructure and workload elements.
Server Summary
The PowerEdge™ M620 blade server offers outstanding memory density and superb performance with no compromise on enterprise-class features. The M620 offers an ideal blend of density, performance, efficiency and scalability, designed for heavy workloads, such as:
- Email, database and virtual environments
- Mid-tier business processing, decision support and collaboration
- Critical industrial research and development (R&D) high-performance computing applications
- Feature-rich, 2-socket, half-height blade server
- Designed for the full range of data centers
- Ideal for high-performance workloads, such as virtualization and databases
- Superb performance and exceptional flexibility
- No compromise on enterprise-class features
- Easy lifecycle manageability with innovative management tools
- Large memory footprint (up to 768GB* in 24 DIMMs)
- Dual Secure Digital (SD) cards for redundant hypervisors (configuration helps ensure both are optimally aligned to help prevent units from reaching end of life at the same time)
- PCI Express flash drives provide extremely high IOPS over standard drives to help reduce I/O (input/output) bottlenecks
- Intelligent hardware-driven systems management
- Extensive power management
- Integration into virtualization management consoles
- Innovative automation for parts replacement
- Flexible memory density up to 24 DIMMs
- Optional swappable hot-plug power supply unit, hard disk drives (HDDs) and fans in the M1000e
- Two 10GbE Broadcom converged network adaptors
- Multiple RAID options to fit specific needs
Storage Summary
The Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6110 series arrays provide virtualized 10GbE 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. The PS6110 series 10GbE arrays can use Data Center Bridging (DCB) to improve Ethernet quality of service and greatly reduce dropped packets for an end-to-end Internet SCSI (iSCSI) over DCB solution, from host adapters to iSCSI target.
- Great cost-per-gigabyte with serial attached storage (SAS) SCSI, NL-SAS, solid-state drive and hybrid options
- Fault-tolerant capabilities through fully redundant and hot-swappable components (dual 10GbE controllers, disk drives with hot spares and dual power supplies)
- Dual controllers offer SPF+ and 10GBASE-T port options to leverage your existing infrastructure or build out low-cost 10GBASE-T
- Enterprise-level SAN for every-sized organization at no extra cost and with no additional licensing fees
- On-demand scalability without disruption, helping provide exceptional flexibility at a low total cost of ownership
- Automatic data tiering to help optimize pool performance and deliver the right data to the right place at the right time
- Data Center Bridging helps improve Ethernet QoS and eliminate dropped packets for an end-to-end solution, from converged network adaptor to iSCSI target
- SAN HQ multi-SAN historical performance monitoring and analysis tool for multiple virtualized EqualLogic SAN groups distributed across different data centers and remote offices
- Host Integration Tools, tightly integrated with Microsoft®, VMware® and Linux® products at no additional cost, help reduce time spent on tedious storage management tasks while increasing the reliability and performance of your EqualLogic environment
Networking Summary
Two Dell Force10™ S4810 10GbE top-of-rack switches in combination with two PowerEdge M I/O Aggregators in the M1000e provide an end-to-end converged fabric for LAN and iSCSI storage, from the blade server to the EqualLogic array.- S4810 is a 1U high-density 10/40GbE top-of-rack (ToR) switch with 48 dual-speed 1/10GbE (SFP+) ports and four 40GbE (QSFP+) uplinks (totaling 64 10GbE ports with breakout cables).
- I/O Aggregator is a blade IO module that provides up to 16 10GbE uplink ports and 32-internal 10GbE ports for high-speed intra-chassis traffic that helps eliminate cables and reduces the number of ToR ports that are consumed. It is easily administered with plug-and-play functionality.
Fully IEEE DCB compliant, supporting the convergence of LAN and iSCSI storage traffic into a single network.
Feature-rich Dell Force10 operating system (FTOS)
- Powers some of the largest and most demanding data center environments
- Provides predictable, reliable network performance while reducing operations and management overhead
- Uses industry-standard CLI with Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing support
Services and support for VMware
Support services
Dell ProSupport is included with every Active System 800- 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 from Dell specialists
Configuration and deployment
Installation and deployment is included with every Active System 800- Installation of individual components (servers, storage, network, UPS) into rack
- Cabling of all components as per specifications
- Installation and/or configuration of VMware® ESX, VMware® vCenter™ and the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter
IT consulting
Active System 800 Assistance and Consulting Service (designed for VMware versions with the following four options)- Design service driven by categorization of source workloads
- Healthcheck 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 cloud
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, alternative consolidation scenarios and a blueprint of your current environment in relation to best practices
- Recommendations about industry trends in relation to data center networking standards and application performance improvement
Customer training
For VMware- Training for VMware software components, where available
- Dell EqualLogic™ administration and advanced management training