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vStart 50 VMware vSphere Solution Overview
Dell Inc. 3
Table of Contents
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 4
2 Audience............................................................................................................... 4
3 Solution Overview ................................................................................................... 5
3.1 Storage Expansion Options .................................................................................. 6
3.2 Product Overview ............................................................................................. 7
4 Delivery Model ...................................................................................................... 10
5 Design Principles and Solution Capabilities ................................................................... 11
5.1 No Single Point of Failure .................................................................................. 11
5.2 Physical Separation of LAN and iSCSI SAN Traffic ..................................................... 11
5.3 Logical Separation of multiple LAN traffic types ...................................................... 11
5.4 Requirements for Integration into an Existing Data Center ......................................... 11
5.5 VMware vSphere Features ................................................................................. 12
5.6 Leverage EqualLogic Storage Integration with VMware .............................................. 13
5.7 Thin Provisioning ............................................................................................ 13
5.8 Storage Tiering .............................................................................................. 13
6 Management Capabilities ......................................................................................... 13
6.1 Virtualization Management ................................................................................ 13
6.2 Health Monitoring ........................................................................................... 13
6.3 System Inventory ............................................................................................ 14
6.4 Performance Monitoring ................................................................................... 14
6.5 Storage Management ....................................................................................... 14
6.6 Hardware and Hypervisor Maintenance ................................................................. 15
6.7 Out-of-band management ................................................................................. 15
7 Cooling, Power, and Weight Requirements ................................................................... 16