Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft’s next generation hypervisor technology, adds an exciting new dimension to the server virtualization market. With Hyper-V and Microsoft’s integrated Server Management suite, you can take advantage of a powerful set of tools to help simplify infrastructure management and better utilize your hardware investments.
®Microsoft Windows ®Server 2008
Server Virtualization and Management
TWindows Server 2008 Hyper-V , Microsoft's next generation hypervisor technology, adds an exciting new dimension to the server virtualization market. With Hyper-V and Microsoft's integrated Server Management suite, you can take advantage of a powerful set of tools to help simplify infrastructure management and better utilize your hardware investments. Dell closely collaborated with Microsoft during development of Windows Server 2008, gaining expertise in all aspects of its functionality, including virtualization. By working with Dell, you benefit from a fully engineered virtualization solution and extensive experience to help simplify and accelerate your virtualization deployments. VIRTUALIZATION tailored for YOUR BUSINESSDell's Virtualization Solution with Microsoft can be easily customized to deliver a flexible solution that makes sense for your budget, staff, and business. Dell has certified Microsoft virtualization technologies across a broad range of our virtualization optimized server and storage platforms to deliver a flexible solution designed to help you:. Better utilize current resources and get costs under control FPO. Manage infrastructure without impacting business . Recover quickly from unexpected problems . Respond faster to business demandsACCELERATED time to valueDell has invested thousands of hours in the lab and in the field designing and deploying Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V implementations, enabling comprehensive consulting services to deliver a practical solution built to your specific needs. By working with Dell, you can tap into our extensive pool of best practices, innovative tools, and automated analysis to help ensure your transition to virtualization will be smooth and efficient. Dell helps streamline your virtualization deployments and empower your IT staff for ongoing success.SIMPLIFIED INTEGRATED MANAGEMENTDell and Microsoft help eliminate the management complexity driven from multiple management consoles traditionally required to manage your IT environment. When you use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) together with Microsoft System Center and Dell TOpenManage , you can manage both virtual and physical environments with the same tool to maximize the uptime of your server and storage infrastructure. Together, Dell and Microsoft can help simplify IT by providing a virtualization strategy that mobilizes and proactively manages the resources of your business' entire infrastructure, ultimately reducing its total cost of ownership.custom implementation"Dell introduced the Hyper-V solution, they were able to provide us the architecture, they outlined exactly what we needed to do, and we were able to implement that into our production environment very easily with their help." - Ray Pawlikowski, President, HotSchedules
®The Dell virtualization solution with Microsoft consists of:OPTIMIZED PLATFORMS®Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-VT, which provides partitioning for virtual machines. Hyper-V supports 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines running side by side.DellT PowerEdgeT Servers deliver powerful performance as a result of our focus on optimizing design for virtualization. Dell's virtualization optimized 1, 2 3, 4servers include design features like more memory capacity and available I/O than competition multi-core processors, and embedded hypervisors to provide incredible virtualization capabilities.Dell storage offers a broad choice of easy-to-manage and highly scalable Fibre Channel and iSCSI-based storage platforms designed to meet an organization's specific environment. INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT®Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides centralized management of the virtual machine infrastructure.® ®Microsoft System Center Server Management Suite Microsoft System Center Essentials (SCE) 2007Simplifies management of servers, client computers, hardware, software, Delivers a unified management solution for mid-sized organizations. and IT services for a unified experience. With Microsoft SCE, you can manage IT services, software, and hardware, . System Center Operations Manager 2007 automates routine, redundant including through a single console with up to 30 Windows servers and tasks and provides intelligent reporting and monitoring to help increase 500 Windows clients. efficiency and control over your IT environment. ®. System C... [download for more]
