The Dell EMC Safety & Security Lab primarily uses VMware ESXi, Dell EMC storage arrays, Dell EMC servers and Dell EMC Networking. The lab therefore provides tested architectures and solutions that are optimized for various implementation tiers.
VMware ESXi is used across thousands of IT environments around the world to virtualize computer hardware resources, including CPU, RAM, hard disk, and network controller, to create a fully functional virtual machine (VM).
Virtualization with VMware consolidates the number of safety and security servers that are required at a particular site. Aggregating multiple virtualized safety and security servers onto VMware ESX/ESXi hosts enables more bandwidth per physical host than is normally available from a physical host.
Larger centralized installations can benefit from the use of virtualization for consolidation purposes. For large-scale multi-petabyte requirements, Isilon scale-out storage can offer high scalability and storage density for XProtect archiving.
All of the architecture designs in this guide can be implemented as a virtualized environment.