Dell storage enables the full benefits of server virtualization
Hypervisor-based virtualization offers the potential to transform the data center into a world where pooled servers, networking, and storage can be rapidly deployed to meet the needs of your business.
Shared storage is a key technology to enable many of the benefits of server virtualization, from achieving higher availability – maximizing application uptime, and extending business continuity – to enabling live workload mobility, which can give IT managers unprecedented flexibility to align applications with the memory, processor, network and disk resources that serve them.
Dell offers an efficient approach to building a solid storage foundation that can optimize the virtual data center; maintain broad choice in vendors, technologies and architectures; and allow seamless scalability while delivering high efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Key Benefits
- Flexible design, implementation and management through end-to-end virtualization across server, network and storage segments
- Simplified management of high availability (HA), workload mobility and disaster recovery through storage integration with VMware® vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V™, and Citrix® XenServer™ virtualization platforms
- Seamless administration through integrated virtual server and virtual storage operations
- Low total cost of ownership (TCO), through simplified operations, application-aware automation and standards-based design
- Published reference architectures, white papers, best practices guidelines and other documentation designed to minimize risk, accelerate design and implementation and simplify operations
- A comprehensive suite of Dell professional services, customizable to suit any enterprise storage need at any project stage, from workshops and assessments to design and Implementation services
