Overview
VMware Virtual Infrastructure software fuels the Dell Scalable Enterprise strategy of Simplified Operations, Improved Utilization and Cost Effective Scaling. Dell offers VMware Virtual Infrastructure Software on the Dell PowerEdge 1950, 2950, 6850, 6950 servers and the PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server. Additionally, Dell offers the full line of VMware software through Dell's Software and Peripherals group.
Dell | VMware - The Power of Virtualization
Dell and VMware jointly test and certify VMware Infrastructure 3 virtualization software on Dell PowerEdgeTM Servers and Dell/EMC Storage. Together, Dell and VMware provide production-proven solutions for building VMware virtual infrastructures.
The combined strength of Dell and VMware can deliver significant benefits for small, medium, and large organizations across all industries and sectors:
- Increase operational flexibility and efficiency: Quick deployment of software applications and services for fast time to productivity.
- Realize transformative cost savings: Low TCO from virtualized IT infrastructures that enable effective use of budget resources and help decrease operational costs.
- Minimize risk and enhance IT service levels: Zero-downtime maintenance capabilities and rapid recovery times for high availability and streamlined disaster recovery scenarios across the datacenter.
- Optimize IT environments: VMware virtual infrastructures help optimize and manage the enterprise-from Dell PowerEdge servers to Dell OptiPlexTM desktops and Dell LatitudeTM notebook PCs.
Customer Success Stories
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- Jackson Walker The case for consolidation - Texas law firm Jackson Walker finds a favorable verdict in a streamlined, virtualized server and storage infrastructure from Dell .
- Data Guard Hosted POS service provider Data Guard Systems reduced power cost by consolidating 45 backup database servers onto 4 Dell PowerEdge servers.
- Houghton International With help from Dell Services, industry lubricant manufacturer Houghton International standardizes on Dell servers and implements VMware ESX.
- Welch's Welch's juices up its IT infrastructure with VMware ESX on Dell PowerEdge servers and can provision a server in 15 minutes.
- NEXT Financial NEXT Financial Group combined Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell|EMC SAN, Vmware ESX, and Dell Professional Services to implement a disaster recovery program to provide high availability and increased customer service.
- University of Missouri-Rolla When University of Missouri-Rolla needed a reliable data center solution, they chose Dell and VMware to consolidate servers and create a redundant site -- and also found out they could get a new server up and running in a matter of hours.
- National Semiconductor VMware virtualization software on Dell servers helps National Semiconductor reduce cost, streamline IT management, and improve cycle time while enhancing it's ability to recover from failures—including disasters.
- AIG Technologies VMware ESX on Dell PowerEdge 6650 Servers Helps AIG Technologies Achieve a 50 Percent Increase in Server Deployment Speed and 20:1 Reduction in the Number of Servers AIG Technologies uses VMware ESX Server to Boost ROI, Enhance Business Response.
- THK GmbH Large engineering supply company THK implements a virtual solution based on Dell technology and can now depend on a reliable and high performing infrastructure.
White Papers
- Scalable Enterprise Implementation Study: How Dell IT Uses Virtualization to Enable Test and Development
- Performance Scaling with Quad-Core Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Virtualization in the Dell Scalable Enterprise
- Better Business Protection Through Virtualization
- Virtualization Gets Real
- Server Virtualization in the Scalable Enterprise
- Extending the Virtualization Infrastructure on Dell PowerEdge Servers Using VMware ESXi 3 Advanced Features
- Improved Virtualization Performance with 9th Generation Servers Dell's ninth generation of PowerEdge servers provide an unparalleled level of performance over the previous generation, with Intel Core Microarchitecture processors and fast memory speeds with FB-DIMMs. This paper will quantify these performance gains within a virtualized environment by using VMware Infrastructure 3.The results demonstrated a gain of up to 2.2X from a PowerEdge 1850 compared to the Dell PowerEdge 1950.
- VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Server By Dave Jaffe, Todd Muirhead, and Balasubramanian Chandrasekaran, December 2005 . Dell's 1855 blade server performance in a VMotion live migration scenario well beyond a typical scenario. Live migration of virtual machines - VMotion - is typically used for routine maintenance, load balancing, and fault tolerance. These are migrations that some IT managers use anywhere from twice a day to twice a week. But what about ten times in ten minutes? Dell engineers found that the Dell 1855 Blade server can handle twice that amount - 20 migrations in 10 minutes -- with negligible impact on the virtual machine application performance.
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