With more choice and complexity, it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage IT infrastructure in a data center. Making changes to data center infrastructure, which has evolved over time, can significantly affect stability, performance, costs, and upgradability.

Dell EMC Ready Stack is proven, tested, and optimized to help organizations meet long-term data center 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 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) DP4400 backup solution

This Dell EMC Ready Stack includes:

• One trusted vendor for all CI stack components—compute, storage, networking, and data protection
• 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