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Accelerate your private cloud’s time to productivity with the preintegrated and presized vStart 1000.
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Features
Host mission-critical applications.
Deploy an application platform that is designed to provide leading scalability, resiliency and performance.
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Accelerate time to value.
Host mission-critical applications and implement private clouds in days instead of weeks or months.
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Improve IT responsiveness by enabling private cloud services.
Expedite access to IT assets while maintaining policy compliance and governance.
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Deploy an application platform that is designed to provide leading scalability, resiliency and performance.
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Accelerate time to value.
Host mission-critical applications and implement private clouds in days instead of weeks or months.
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Improve IT responsiveness by enabling private cloud services.
Expedite access to IT assets while maintaining policy compliance and governance.
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Preprovisioned with Microsoft or VMware virtualization management
Choose from VMware® vSphere™ or Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization platforms for full-virtualization infrastructure and application hosting.
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The vStart advantage
Fully leverage vStart features as you deploy vStart 1000, whether you are initiating a new data center or building onto your established infrastructure.
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Choose from VMware® vSphere™ or Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization platforms for full-virtualization infrastructure and application hosting.
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The vStart advantage
Fully leverage vStart features as you deploy vStart 1000, 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
The half-height PowerEdge M620 blade server offers unprecedented memory density and superb performance for the vStart 1000, with no compromise on enterprise-class features. The M620 is a near-perfect blend of density, performance, efficiency and scalability designed for taxing workloads such as email, database and virtual environments.
Note: Two virtualized Dell PowerEdge R620 rack servers are also included and serve as hosts for the management tools.
For more information on the PowerEdge M620 blade server, click here
For more information on Dell PowerEdge R620 servers, click here
For more information on the PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis, click here
Storage summary
The Dell Compellent SC8000 Storage Center Controller and enclosure is an all-in-one storage array that allows organizations to actively manage data at a highly granular level using built-in intelligence and automation. This ultraefficient, easy-to-manage storage solution optimizes drive utilization; dynamically moves data between storage tiers and RAID levels; continuously protects data against downtime and disaster; scales on demand and quickly adapts to ever-changing business needs. SC8000 offers increased capacity, a 64-bit OS, increased memory and memory performance, increased PCI bus performance and increased processing power over previous generation arrays, enhancing storage flexibility, resiliency and performance.
vStart 1000 features dual storage controllers to help ensure maximum uptime, each featuring a six-core Sandy Bridge Intel® processor, six PCIe expansion slots and 4GB* of battery-less cache that features multithreaded read-ahead mirrored write technology for continuous data protection.
The vStart 1000 starter solution configuration features:
A Brocade® 6510 SAN switch provides the storage networking.
Networking summary
Dell’s Force10 S4810, 10/40GbE top-of-rack switch delivers Ethernet connectivity for the vStart 1000. Its nonblocking, cut-through switching architecture offers ultralow latency and line-rate Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding capacity to help maximize network throughout for high-performance data centers environments. The space-saving compact design includes 48 dual-speed 1/10GbE (SFP+) ports as well as four 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks.
The S4810 incorporates multiple architectural features that optimize data center network flexibility, efficiency and availability. These include IO-panel-to-PSU airflow or PSU-to-IO-panel airflow for hot/cold aisle environments and redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans.
- Hypervisor (options)
- VMware® vSphere™ 5.1
- Microsoft® Windows Server® Hyper-V™ 2012
- Management
- VMware vCenter™ Server (VMware edition)
- Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter (VMware edition)
- VMware vCloud® Connector (VMware edition)
- Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager (Microsoft edition)
- Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager
- Dell Compellent Plug-in for VMware vCenter (VMware edition)
- OpenManage Essentials with Repository Manager
The half-height PowerEdge M620 blade server offers unprecedented memory density and superb performance for the vStart 1000, with no compromise on enterprise-class features. The M620 is a near-perfect blend of density, performance, efficiency and scalability designed for taxing workloads such as email, database and virtual environments.
- vStart 1000 starter solution configuration includes eight VMware ESXi virtual servers with a total of 128 processor cores (Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processor) and 1TB* of memory. Solution can scale to 32 virtual servers with 512 cores and 4TB* of memory.
- vStart 1000 leverages Broadcom® 57810-k dual-port 10Gb KR blade network daughter cards for Ethernet connectivity and QLogic® QME2572 8 Gbps fibre channel I/O (input/output) mezzanine cards for storage connectivity.
- Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC 7) Enterprise Edition provides out-of-band server management.
Note: Two virtualized Dell PowerEdge R620 rack servers are also included and serve as hosts for the management tools.
For more information on the PowerEdge M620 blade server, click here
For more information on Dell PowerEdge R620 servers, click here
For more information on the PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis, click here
Storage summary
The Dell Compellent SC8000 Storage Center Controller and enclosure is an all-in-one storage array that allows organizations to actively manage data at a highly granular level using built-in intelligence and automation. This ultraefficient, easy-to-manage storage solution optimizes drive utilization; dynamically moves data between storage tiers and RAID levels; continuously protects data against downtime and disaster; scales on demand and quickly adapts to ever-changing business needs. SC8000 offers increased capacity, a 64-bit OS, increased memory and memory performance, increased PCI bus performance and increased processing power over previous generation arrays, enhancing storage flexibility, resiliency and performance.
vStart 1000 features dual storage controllers to help ensure maximum uptime, each featuring a six-core Sandy Bridge Intel® processor, six PCIe expansion slots and 4GB* of battery-less cache that features multithreaded read-ahead mirrored write technology for continuous data protection.
The vStart 1000 starter solution configuration features:
- Two SC220 2.5” drive enclosures with a total of 36x 15,000 rpm/300GB* SAS drives
- One SC200 3.5” enclosure with seven 7,200 rpm/3TB* drives
- Total raw storage capacity of 31.8TB*
- Six SC220 2.5” SAS enclosures with a total of 144 x 15,000 rpm/300GB* SAS drives
- Two SC200 3.5” enclosures with a total of 24 x 7,200 rpm/3TB* drives
- Total raw storage capacity of 115.2 TB*
A Brocade® 6510 SAN switch provides the storage networking.
Networking summary
Dell’s Force10 S4810, 10/40GbE top-of-rack switch delivers Ethernet connectivity for the vStart 1000. Its nonblocking, cut-through switching architecture offers ultralow latency and line-rate Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding capacity to help maximize network throughout for high-performance data centers environments. The space-saving compact design includes 48 dual-speed 1/10GbE (SFP+) ports as well as four 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks.
The S4810 incorporates multiple architectural features that optimize data center network flexibility, efficiency and availability. These include IO-panel-to-PSU airflow or PSU-to-IO-panel airflow for hot/cold aisle environments and redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fans.
- vStart 1000 comes standard with two Dell 10/40GbE Force10 S4810 switches with a 1.28 Tbps (full duplex) nonblocking, cut-through switching fabric that provides line-rate performance under full load with 800ns latency.
- Open Automation Framework adds VM-awareness as well as automated configuration and provisioning capabilities to simplify the management of virtual network environments.
- Modular Dell Force10 Operating System (FTOS) software offers inherent stability as well as advanced monitoring and serviceability functions.
- Two Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator I/O modules provide chassis connectivity to the top-of-rack switch.
- Two Brocade® 8GB 6510 fibre channel switches provide storage connectivity.
- For more information on the Dell Force10 S4810 switch, click here
- For more information on the Dell Force10 S55 switch, click here
- For more information on the Dell PowerEdge I/O Aggregator, click here
- For more information on the Brocade 6510 fibre switch, click here
- SQL Database — required for vCenter and Compellent Enterprise Manager
- Domain Name System (DNS) — available on management network
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) — available on management network
- Network routing
- SMTP — may be used by OpenManage Essentials and vCenter
- SysLog — recommended for vSphere, LAN switch and SAN switch logs
Support services
Dell ProSupport™ is included with every vStart 1000
Dell ProSupport* offers Next Business Day On-site Service After Remote Diagnosis* on each blade chassis, server and switch during Limited Hardware Warranty* period.
Optional Remote Advisory Service
vStart 1000 Assistance and Consulting Service (available for both VMware and Microsoft versions)
For virtualization
Dell ProSupport™ is included with every vStart 1000
Dell ProSupport* offers Next Business Day On-site Service After Remote Diagnosis* on each blade chassis, server and switch during Limited Hardware Warranty* period.
Optional Remote Advisory Service
- Phone- and internet-based consultation, configuration and management support is available from Dell specialists.
- 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™, the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter and the Compellent Plug-in for vCenter; or Microsoft® Windows Server® Hyper-V® and Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- Installation and/or configuration of VMware vCloud® connector, Compellent Enterprise Manager, and OpenManage Essentials with Repository Manager
- Installation, configuration and knowledge transfer for Dell Compellent Series 40 SAN and Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager
vStart 1000 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
- 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
- Dell Compellent administration and advanced management training