Dell Delivers Innovative Cloud and Virtualization Solutions Blending VMware Technology with Dell End-to-End Offerings
26 August 2013 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
Today at VMworld 2013, Dell announced new cloud and
virtualization solutions to help customers deliver increased
performance, agility and efficiency. The new end-to-end offerings
demonstrate the breadth of the Dell and VMware integrations and
strength of the partnership.
“Customers are in the driver’s seat when it comes to procuring
cloud and virtualization solutions and Dell is on target with its
new offerings as the company is both innovating and partnering to
give customers exactly the solutions that will best fit their
business needs,” said Wayne Pauley, Senior Analyst at the
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). “Dell’s new offerings should help
customers boost IT performance and better enable business agility.
When you include VMware’s virtualization technology with Dell’s
solutions, customers will want to take a close look at how they can
further enhance and quickly optimize their businesses with these
joint solutions.”
Data Center Solutions
Dell Networking today expanded its S-series portfolio with the
new S6000, the industry’s highest-density 1RU 10/40GbE switching
platform(1) for highly-virtualized data centers. A fixed form
factor design, the S6000 offers up to twice the density and
throughput while consuming up to 50 percent less power than
previous generation top-of-rack switches. Built-in advanced
virtualization and automation features help customers scale larger
virtual deployments in a smaller physical footprint, and helps
solve the challenge of bridging virtualized and non-virtualized
aspects of the infrastructure.
- S6000 supports advanced network
virtualization and software-defined networking features including
hardware-accelerated L2 Gateway functionality for use with VMware
NSX™, bridging traffic between virtualized and non-virtualized
environments.
- Dell is also previewing enhanced
functionality with Active Fabric Manager (AFM) 2.0 specifically for
VMware environments. Active Fabric Manager provides simplified
configuration, management and monitoring of Dell Active Fabric leaf
and spine elements. With AFM 2.0, Dell will be introducing command
line interface functionality for VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch
allowing customers to now configure both physical and virtual
fabric switches with common design templates and industry-standard
command line syntax.
Dell also introduced:
- Fault Resilient Memory: A unique
technology developed by Dell and VMware, this innovation allows
Dell PowerEdge 12th generation server customers using VMware
vSphere 5.5 to maximize available server memory while increasing
protection for the hypervisor against memory faults, providing a
stable virtualization platform for mission critical
applications.
- Dell Storage integrations with
VMware vSphere 5.5: New software releases, Dell Compellent
vSphere Client Plug-in 2.0 and Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage
Manager for VMware 4.0, provide seamless integration with vSphere
5.5, enabling users to manage and provision storage, and easily
protect and recover VMs using snapshot and replication schedules
with the management of multiple storage arrays from a single VMware
vSphere Web Client interface.
- OpenManage Integration for VMware
vCenter: With support for VMware vSphere 5.5 in version 2.0,
this solution enables both vSphere Web and Standard Clients, while
maintaining agent-free integration of iDRAC with Lifecycle
Controller to simplify monitoring, automate cluster-level firmware
updates and speed bare-metal deployment through the vCenter
management console.
Cloud Client Computing Solutions
Dell Cloud Client Computing introduced a broad range of
innovative technologies in the DVS Enterprise for VMware Horizon
View solution to help customers enhance their corporate IT
environments. DVS Enterprise for VMware View updates include:
- Broader array of pre-integrated
solutions and reference architectures: New support for VMware
Horizon View™ workloads with Dell Active System Manager, a new
technical whitepaper for VMware Horizon View with PowerEdge VRTX,
and new Branch Office Desktop and Business Process Desktop
reference architectures, helps organizations accelerate the
deployment and configuration of virtual desktop infrastructure,
maximize efficiency and deliver predictable and reliable desktop
experience to end users.
- Enhanced user experience: With
support for virtualized high performance 3D graphics leveraging
VMware View vSGA and vDGA and NVIDIA GRID K1/K2 GPUs, unified
collaboration and VoIP with Microsoft Lync 2013, customers can
access rich media and graphic applications from any location and on
virtually any device, while providing IT departments with the
ability to centrally host and manage sensitive user data and
resources.
- Extended end point devices for
VMware Horizon View with PCoIP: The Dell Wyse P25 and P45 zero
clients and Dell Wyse D10DP virus-immune thin client developed
exclusively to support PCoIP. Built on the latest AMD dual-core APU
(accelerated processor unit) and auto-management technology, the
D10DP delivers outstanding graphics performance, zero maintenance
required and boots up in less than 10 seconds. PCoIP support is now
offered on a powerful dual core thin client based on the
virus-immune ThinOS firmware base.
- Enhanced strategic go-to-market
partnership, technology partner ecosystem and channel
commitment: With new joint channel sales processes,
certified technology partners, incentives and dedicated technical
and engineering resources, Dell is extending its commitment to
serve partners who sell joint Dell-VMware solutions.
Dell also updated its cloud-based virtual desktop solution, Dell
Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) On Demand with new features from
Desktone’s secure multi-tenant VDI platform, delivering
session-based desktops, published applications, persistent or
non-persistent Windows 7 or XP desktops, RSA secure authentication,
among others. With these updates and Dell’s rapid pilot program,
one of the world’s largest Media and Entertainment Services
companies is implementing this solution. Dell has also extended
DaaS On Demand to Channel Partners for the first time and is
offering a free trial so customers can quickly and easily
experience the benefits of delivering secure, fully-featured
virtual desktops to users without any upfront capital cost.
Software
Helping businesses of all sizes streamline virtualization,
storage and cloud computing initiatives, Dell Software recently
introduced the next generation of its Foglight® Virtualization
Operations Management suite to help businesses address a number of
data center transformation challenges – from virtual environment
optimization to solving storage performance challenges and creating
energy savings. The trio of products accelerate IT staff efficiency
and can cut operational costs by reducing infrastructure complexity
with end-to-end visibility and best practice advice built on years
of virtualization management experience.
- Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise
7.0 is a highly scalable and cost effective product that now
includes support for VMware vSphere 5.5 and vCloud Director to help
virtual administrators monitor and ensure end-to-end visibility
into the overall health of the virtualized environment.
- Foglight for Virtualization, Standard
7.0 is specifically designed for the small-to-medium size
environment and includes new capacity management and planning
functionality that helps to drive data center sustainability and
reduce power consumption to decrease operating costs and capital
expenditures, while improving workload performance.
- Foglight for Storage Management 3.0
helps IT staff better identify and recommend fixes to storage
performance problems before they have an adverse effect on the
physical or virtual infrastructure.
Availability:
- Data Center Solutions: Dell
expects the S6000 will be available worldwide in its third fiscal
quarter; Dell Fault Resilient Memory is available now in all
regions for customers running Dell PowerEdge 12G servers and VMware
vSphere 5.5; Dell Compellent vSphere Client Plug-in 2.0 is
available worldwide today and Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage
Manager for VMware 4.0 will be available in Q4.
- Cloud Client Computing
Solutions: Dell DVS Enterprise updates will be available before
the end of August in the U.S. and select countries in EMEA (other
regions are supported via channel partners and custom deployments);
Dell Wyse P25 and P45 zero clients are currently available and the
Dell Wyse D10DP thin client with PCoIP will be available late
September 2013; Dell DaaS on Demand is available in North America
through the channel in late July 2013 and in EMEA in mid-August
2013.
- Software: Foglight for
Virtualization will be available on August 31 in English-only and
available worldwide.
To learn more about these solutions, please visit
www.dell.com/vmware.
Supporting Quotes
“Virtualization and cloud computing are pushing customers to
find solutions that are fast to deploy, easy to manage and
optimized for performance,” said Russ Fujioka, vice president,
Global Alliances, Partners and Marketing Innovation, Dell. “With
Dell’s new customer-inspired solutions unveiled today, Dell is
demonstrating how we’re at the forefront of delivering innovative
cloud and virtualization solutions that combine leading solutions
from VMware and Dell.”
“Dell and VMware share the goal of helping customers optimize
their cloud and virtualization solutions for agility, dynamic
response and value,” said Sanjay Katyal, vice president, Global
Alliances and OEMs, VMware. “Today’s announcements by Dell
demonstrate how we’re partnering together to build mature, tightly
integrated joint solutions to help customers reach their full
potential.”
(1) Based on July 2013 internal Dell analysis comparing Dell
S6000 to comparable systems.
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