Cloud, Virtualisation & Management

Curious about Cloud ?

• Should you use public cloud offerings from providers, build your own private cloud, or develop a hybrid of both?
• What cloud-based services are right for you?
• What are the best practices and proven process for implementing cloud technologies that minimize risk and maximize success?

Microsoft in partnership with Dell

Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track is a reference architecture for building private clouds that combines Dell technology, including servers, networking and storage, with Microsoft software, technical guidance and validated configurations.

Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track solutions offer a turnkey approach to delivering scalable, preconfigured, validated infrastructure platforms for on-premises private cloud implementations. With local control over data and operations, your IT can dynamically pool, allocate, secure and manage resources for agile IaaS. Likewise, business units can deploy line-of-business applications with speed and consistency using self-provisioning and automated data center services in a virtualized environment.

Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track solutions offer:

• Faster deployment — Rich features and support make private clouds easy to deploy.
• Reduced risk — Validated configurations mean you can implement with confidence.
• Dell advantage — Dell provides business-ready configurations for virtualization that are optimized for Microsoft Hyper-V. 

Dell Business-Ready Configurations for Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track

Dell offers a range of pre-engineered, business-ready configurations that conform to Microsoft’s Hyper-V Fast Track reference architecture:

• Business-Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Rack Servers, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Internet SCSI (iSCSI)
  Designed for large-enterprise deployments using 10 GbE iSCSI storage
• Business-Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Rack Servers, iSCSI Storage
  Designed for small and medium deployments
• Business-Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Rack Servers, PowerVault Internet SCSI (iSCSI)
  Designed for small, medium and remote deployments
• Business-Ready Configurations: Hyper-V, Blades, Fibre Channel (FC) Storage
  Designed for a range of deployment sizes using FC storage