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Deployment Guide—VMware IaaS on PowerEdge MX Servers and PowerMax Storage
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Overview

Overview

  • Dell EMC Ready Stack is proven, tested, and optimized to help organizations meet long‑term datacenter needs for a variety of mixed workloads. Ready Stack provides the simplicity of a complete, yet flexible, validated converged infrastructure (CI) that is based on the following components:

    • Dell EMC PowerMax storage
    • Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 blade enclosure
    • Dell EMC S-Series switches
    • VMware datacenter virtualization and management product suites
    • Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) DP4400 backup solution

    This Dell EMC Ready Stack includes:

    • All CI stack components—compute, storage, networking, and data protection—from one trusted vendor
    • Design and deployment guidance that incorporates validation, interoperability testing, and best practices
    • Design guidance that focuses on scale, flexibility, and high availability
    • A reference architecture that incorporates physical topology diagrams and general connectivity guidelines
    • Unified management and system monitoring through VMware vCenter
    • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) integration that support operations, automation, and analysis through VMware vRealize Automation, VMware vRealize Log Insight, and VMware vRealize Operations Manager

    Dell EMC has conducted validation testing, including testing of hardware and software stability as well as feature functionality and interoperability. The validation processes were designed to ensure that the Ready Stack provides a stable, highly available platform for your VMware vSphere workloads.