Due to growing complexity, managing IT infrastructure in a data center is becoming increasingly difficult. Changing data center infrastructure that has evolved over time can significantly affect stability, performance, costs, and upgradability. 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 provides the simplicity of a complete, yet flexible, validated converged infrastructure (CI) that is based on the following components:

• Dell EMC PowerStore storage
• Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
• Dell EMC PowerSwitch S-Series switches
• VMware vSphere virtualization platform

This solution provides:

• 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 topology diagrams and general connectivity guidelines
• Unified management and system monitoring through VMware vCenter