Virtualization made easy
Quickly virtualize your midsize or enterprise solution with preassembled vStart 200, now with Dell™ 12th generation PowerEdge™ servers.
Accelerate time-to-value.
Rapidly deploy a preconfigured virtualization infrastructure for your midsize or enterprise business without assembly, testing and other tasks requiring specialized IT skills.
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Drive efficiency and help lower risk.
Host 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 midsize or enterprise business without assembly, testing and other tasks requiring specialized IT skills.
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Drive efficiency and help lower risk.
Host 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
Benefit from additional vStart features as you deploy vStart 200, 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
Benefit from additional vStart features as you deploy vStart 200, 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 R720 rack server provides the core virtualization platform for the vStart 200, offering concentrated computing power in a 2-socket, 2U form factor. With high memory density and balanced I/O it provides the ideal platform for the vStart 200 virtual environment.
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For more information on Dell PowerEdge R620 servers, click here
Storage summary
Dual Dell EqualLogic PS6100 series storage arrays provide virtualized 10GbE iSCSI SAN storage that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to offer simplified administration, rapid deployment, seamless scalability and enterprise performance and reliability.
Networking summary
Dell PowerConnect 7048 Gigabit Ethernet (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 provide advanced switching capabilities that include standard high-density 10GbE uplinks (1GbE uplinks also supported), high-performance stacking and high redundancy and availability. Scalable from small-business applications to the data center edge, the PowerConnect 7048 features:
Summary of other required integration elements
- Hypervisor (options)
- VMware® vSphere™ 5.0
- Microsoft® Windows Server® Hyper-V™ 2012
- Management
- VMware vCenter (VMware edition)
- Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter™ (VMware edition)
- Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for VMware (HIT/VE) Plug-in for vCenter (VMware edition)
- Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (Microsoft edition)
- EqualLogic SAN Headquarters
- Dell OpenManage Server Essentials
Dell PowerEdge R720 rack server provides the core virtualization platform for the vStart 200, offering concentrated computing power in a 2-socket, 2U form factor. With high memory density and balanced I/O it provides the ideal platform for the vStart 200 virtual environment.
- The vStart 200 solution configuration ranges from three to six ESXi virtual servers and, depending on the configuration, offers between 48 and 96 processor cores (Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processor) and 288 to 576GB* of memory.
- Dual NICs provide full redundancy and highly available interconnect for vStart 200. Each NIC offers impressive I/O 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 R720 servers, click here
For more information on Dell PowerEdge R620 servers, click here
Storage summary
Dual Dell EqualLogic PS6100 series storage arrays provide virtualized 10GbE iSCSI SAN storage that combines intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to offer simplified administration, rapid deployment, seamless scalability and enterprise performance and reliability.
- Standard starting configuration includes 24 hot-pluggable 2.5” 600GB* 10K rpm SAS hard drives, with total system capacity of up to 14.4TB*, scalable to 43.2TB* of raw storage. 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)
Networking summary
Dell PowerConnect 7048 Gigabit Ethernet (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 provide advanced switching capabilities that include standard high-density 10GbE uplinks (1GbE uplinks also supported), high-performance stacking and high redundancy and availability. Scalable from small-business applications to the data center edge, the PowerConnect 7048 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 via 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 200
vStart 200 Assistance and Consulting Service (available for both VMware and Microsoft versions)
Dell ProSupport™ is included with every vStart 200
- Dell ProSupport* offers next business day on-site service after remote diagnosis* on each server and switch during Limited Hardware Warranty* period.
- Phone- and internet-based consultation, configuration and management support 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® HyperV™ and Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
- Installation, configuration and knowledge transfer provided for Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters
vStart 200 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
Customer training
For Virtualization
- Training for VMware software components, where available
- Training for Microsoft software components, where available
- Dell EqualLogic administration and advanced management training
