Dell EMC Ready Stack solutions are proven, tested, and optimized to help organizations meet long‑term data center needs for various mixed workloads. This Ready Stack solution was designed to support high-performance database applications—online analytical processing (OLAP) and online transaction processing (OLTP)—that are deployed on both physical and virtual platforms. This mixed-deployment configuration highlights the range of workloads that this Ready Stack solution can support, enabling workload consolidation, reducing cost, and simplifying management.

This Ready Stack solution provides the simplicity of a complete, yet flexible, validated converged infrastructure (CI) that is based on the following components:

• Dell EMC XtremIO X2 storage
• Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
• Dell EMC PowerSwitch S-Series switches
• Dell EMC Connectrix DS-6600 Series Fibre Channel (FC) switches
• VMware data center virtualization and management product suites that support the VMware Cloud Foundation integrated hybrid cloud platform
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Dell EMC Data Domain DD6300 protection storage system

This Ready Stack solution includes:

• All CI stack components—compute, storage, networking, and data protection—from one trusted vendor
• A reference architecture that incorporates physical topology diagrams and general connectivity guidelines
• Design guidance that focuses on scale, flexibility, and high availability
• Design and deployment guidance that incorporates validation, interoperability testing, and best practices

Note: This Ready Stack design is database-vendor-agnostic and can apply to various database applications.

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 this Ready Stack solution provides a stable, highly available platform for your database workloads.