Guides

• vSphere
• XtremIO X2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• design guide
• Ready Stack
• high-performance database applications
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Design Guide—VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for High-Performance Database Applications

This guide describes the architecture and configuration of a converged infrastructure for VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, XtremIO X2 storage, S-Series switches, and Data Domain protection.

• PowerEdge
• vSphere
• XtremIO X2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• high-performance database applications
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Deployment Guide—VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for High-Performance Database Applications

This guide describes the configuration and deployment of a converged infrastructure that is optimized for high-performance database applications. This solution is based on VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Dell EMC servers and storage.

• PowerEdge
• Unity
• design guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• VMware Cloud Foundation
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Design Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation on PowerEdge Servers and Unity Storage

This guide provides architectural guidance, best practices, and sample configurations for a converged infrastructure that is based on VMware Cloud Foundation and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, Open Networking, and all-flash storage.

• PowerEdge
• Unity
• deployment guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• VMware Cloud Foundation
• h17834

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Deployment Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation on PowerEdge Servers and Unity Storage

This guide describes the requirements, configuration, and deployment of a converged infrastructure that is based on VMware Cloud Foundation and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, Unity All Flash storage, and integrated data protection.

• PowerEdge
• Unity
• Hyper-V
• design guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• h17455

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Design Guide—Microsoft Hyper-V on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage

This design guide describes the architecture, design, configuration, and sizing of a converged infrastructure for Microsoft Hyper-V with Dell EMC 14G rack servers, Unity storage, S-Series switches, and data protection products.

• PowerEdge
• Unity
• Hyper-V
• deployment guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• h17514

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Deployment Guide—Microsoft Hyper-V on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage

This guide describes how to implement a converged infrastructure for Microsoft Hyper-V with Dell EMC 14G rack servers, Unity storage, S-Series switches, and data protection products.

• PowerMax
• PowerEdge MX
• design guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• VMware IaaS
• h17452

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Design Guide—VMware IaaS on PowerEdge MX Servers and PowerMax Storage

This guide describes the architecture, design, configuration, and sizing of a converged infrastructure for VMware IaaS with Dell EMC PowerEdge MX servers, PowerMax storage, S-Series switches, and data protection products.

• PowerMax
• PowerEdge MX
• deployment guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• VMware IaaS
• h17534

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

This deployment guide describes the requirements, configuration, and deployment of a converged infrastructure for VMware IaaS with Dell EMC PowerEdge MX servers, PowerMax storage, S-Series switches, and data protection products.

• Unity
• vSphere
• design guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• h17589

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Design Guide—VMware vSphere and Unity

This document provides design principles, best practices, architectural guidance, and validated configurations for compute, management, networking, and storage.

• Unity
• vSphere
• deployment guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• h17588

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Deployment Guide—VMware vSphere and Unity

This document covers the steps necessary to deploy Dell EMC Ready Stack for vSphere on PowerEdge servers, Unity storage, S-Series switches, and Data Domain with Avamar for data protection.

• PowerEdge
• design guide
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• h18021
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure

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Design Guide—Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2

This guide describes how to design and specify a Dell EMC server and switch infrastructure for validated hardware configurations, facilitating deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 following a Dell EMC deployment.

• PowerEdge
• deployment guide
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• h18022
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure

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Deployment Guide—Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2

This guide provides a validated procedure for deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2 on Dell EMC PowerEdge R-Series servers.

• vSphere
• Unity XT
• design guide
• Isilon
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• h18118

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Design Guide—VMware vSphere with Isilon and Unity XT Storage

This design guide describes the architecture, design, configuration, and sizing of a converged infrastructure for VMware vSphere using Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, Isilon and Unity XT storage, and PowerSwitch S-Series switches.

• reference architecture guide
• Ready Stack
• h17501
• converged infrastructure

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Reference Architecture Guide

This guide describes the architecture of Dell EMC Ready Stack and the options for building Ready Stack systems using Dell EMC hardware and software technologies.

• PowerEdge
• PowerMax
• Big Cloud Fabric
• design guide
• Ready Stack
• converged infrastructure
• VMware IaaS
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Design Guide—VMware IaaS with Big Cloud Fabric on PowerEdge MX Servers and PowerMax Storage

This guide describes the architecture, design, configuration, and sizing of a converged infrastructure for VMware IaaS. The infrastructure uses Big Cloud Fabric with PowerEdge MX servers, PowerMax storage, PowerSwitch switches, and data protection products.