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Business Cases for

Converged Infrastructure

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The Industry is Evolving

CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE ADOPTION

1/3 “By 2015, one-third of all servers will

ship as managed resources

integrated in a converged

infrastructure….”

“Is the Concept of the Server Obsolete, or in Need of Redefining?,” Gartner, March 29, 2012

“The traditional concept of the role specific server will become

increasingly irrelevant in fabric infrastructures, cloud computing

and network-based virtual resources…”


What issues is IT facing today?

of downtime is

caused by

human error

Rolling out new IT services takes longer than expected

Manual and often disconnected processes impact service quality

75%

Source: The causes & costs of data center system

downtime – Advisory Board Q&A

June 2011

of business users

consider IT to be

distributed, agile, &

flexible 29%

Source: InformationWeek survey of IT perception

October 2012

Just Up to

28% Invest

Replace/Expand existing

24%

Inefficient IT leads to difficulty supporting the business

Source: Forrester Research, Inc., Forrsights Budgets &

Priorities Tracker Survey April, 2013

48% Maintain


What’s driving converged infrastructure?

KEY MACRO TRENDS IN THE DATACENTER

Operating costs In 2012, 68% of server-related spend was on management2

68%

Cloud 80% of cloud initiatives will be private and hybrid by 20141

80%

Data center traffic 25X bandwidth (I/O) per rack by 20151

25X

BYOD/Mobility/VDI Smartphone users work an average of extra 240 hours per year3

240

Virtualization 80% server virtualization by 20164

80%


What is converged infrastructure?

Converged infrastructure systems combine compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure management into an integrated system to provide general purpose, virtualized resource pools for applications, VDI and private clouds

COMBINE MANAGEMENT INTO AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM

Virtual

Infrastructure

& OS

Storage Network

Procure

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Legacy

Systems

Mgmt

Servers

Infrastructure Centric

• SI led: multiple components / vendors

• Time consuming (Months)

• Expensive

• People intensive

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• Single source of procurement

• Turnkey: up in less than 2 weeks

• Lower total cost of ownership

• Single point of support

SMB



PowerEdge VRTX

MAKING THE COMPLEX SIMPLE

PowerEdge VRTX is a simple and right-sized solution that manages and consolidates business applications in two to three virtualized servers with shared storage, all at an affordable price.

Current environment Complex, inefficient and rigid

PowerEdge VRTX Simple, efficient and versatile


PowerEdge VRTX

FRONT AND REAR VIEWS

Locking

front

cover

LCD

display

panel

Hot plug

redundant power

supply units

Hot plug

redundant

blowers

Eight RJ45

network interface

card (NIC) ports

Eight external

PCI Express

Slots

Remote

management

ports

Shared storage up to

25 x 2.5-inch or 12 x 3.5-inch

hard disk drive (HDD )

KVM (keyboard,

video, mouse)

ports

Up to four

PowerEdge M520 or

PowerEdge M620

server nodes

Internal low

latency, fast

storage

Shared

DVD


Drive performance WITH POWEREDGE VRTX SERVER NODES

PowerEdge M520

PowerEdge M620 Proven PowerEdge server nodes deliver workhorse performance and density without compromise • Feature-rich, two-socket, half-height PowerEdge M520 and

PowerEdge M620 server nodes combine superb performance with exceptional flexibility.

– PowerEdge M620: Fifty percent more memory than nearest competitor for greater consolidation and virtualization

– PowerEdge M520: Outstanding platform for mainstream business applications

• No compromise, enterprise-class high availability features

– First to market with dual Secure Digital (SD) cards for redundant hypervisors

– Many RAID options tailored to specific needs

– Optional hot plug and swappable power supply units, HDDs and fans in the PowerEdge VRTX chassis

• Comprehensive, intelligent systems management


PowerEdge VRTX SHARED STORAGE

• Enables high availability capabilities including live migration, VMware® VMotion™ and high availability clustering inside the chassis

– Eliminates the cost and complexity of external storage

• All four server nodes have access to the full storage space

– Each server node sees the storage as its own singular storage pool

– Virtual disks can be assigned to single server nodes or across server nodes

• Internal, low latency, fast storage

• Choice of up to 12 x 3.5-inch or 25 x 2.5-inch HDD

• Grow as needed with up to 48TB storage capacity inside the chassis


Dell OpenManage systems management

Comprehensive, simple, efficient systems management with Dell OpenManage™

Dell OpenManage Essentials console • Monitor and manage distributed PowerEdge systems

wherever they are on the network

• Easy to install and simple to use

• Modern user interface with faster responsiveness

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller • Save time performing systems tasks with agent-free

lifecycle management of PowerEdge 12th generation servers which allows your customers to deploy, monitor, update and maintain systems

• Integration with VMWare® vCenter™ and Microsoft® Systems Center for streamlined management in virtual environments

OpenManage Essentials


PowerEdge VRTX simplifies systems

management

Geographic View • Geographic View of distributed PowerEdge

VRTX systems

• Rapid, at-a-glance identification of remote system location and health status via color-coded icons

• Easy to use and intuitive compared to traditional tree hierarchical view

• Seamlessly linked to Dell OpenManage Essentials to perform management tasks

Chassis Management Controller (CMC) for PowerEdge VRTX • Reduces complexity by converging management

of server nodes, storage, networking and power into a unified tool, presented in a single console

• Intuitive, easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) reduces potential for error

• Consistent with CMC used in the data center, allowing IT administrators to use what they know and reduce training time

Enterprise


Global Commercial Channels

Why Blades for Convergence?

• Where blades drive the benefits of convergence:

– Power & cooling efficiency

– Manageability

– Physical convergence of servers, networking & storage

– Computational density

• Dell’s Point-of-View:

– Blade Servers drive greater efficiency and agility in the data center, the key benefits of converged infrastructures

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• Reduce complexity

• An enterprise-class data center in a single chassis and access it via just two 40

GbE cables

• Simplicity without compromise

• Deploy, configure, and update servers with up to 44% less admin time compared

to HP

• Integrated management

• Scalable storage outside the blade chassis

• Exceptional efficiency

• Greater density and consolidated power and cooling

Dell converged blade datacenter

PowerEdge M420

24 compute nodes with up

to 4.7TB of RAM and 384

processor cores

EqualLogic PS-M4110

SAN with redundant arrays,

controllers, 10GbE links and

25TB of 10K SAS drives

Force10 MXL

End-to-end 10GbE unified

fabric, 40 GbE backbone &

full DCB compliance

Integrated Management VMware and MSFT integrations / CMC

/ Repository Manager


PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator

• Simple and easy way for server or virtual admins to connect blade servers

– Clean physical separation between network and server administrators

– No networking complexities such as spanning tree

– Virtualization drives simple I/O module connectivity

– Economizes ToR port consumption

• No compromises on performance: intra-chassis, east-west 10 GbE traffic with low latency

• Faster Deployments: zero touch, automated configuration

PLUG-N-PLAY CONNECTIVITY FOR THE M1000E BLADE CHASSIS

Link

aggregation

group

Top of Rack switch (including 3rd party)

Server Admin

M1000e blade chassis

Dual IOAs

Top of Rack switch (including 3rd party)

Link

aggregation

group

Network Admin


Optio Data “Datacenter in a box”

Quarter-Height Blade

• M420: 2S Intel – 2400 Series

Full-Height Blades • M820: 4S Intel 4600 Series • M915*: 4S AMD • M910*: 4S/2S Intel EX • M610x*: 2S with PCI Expansion

Storage Blade • PS-M4110: EqualLogic Blade Array

Half-Height Blades • M620: 2S Intel – 2600 Series • M520: 2S Intel – 2400 Series


PowerEdge M-Series Chassis Rear View

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9 Chassis Fans

Integrated KVM (iKVM) Chassis Management Controller (CMC) B

6 Power Supplies

Fabric IO Modules (IOMs)

Each IOM has internal ports

Blades have IO ports that connect to Fabric IO Modules

Chassis Differentiation

• Support for up to 10Gb throughput on Fabric A; and 56Gb on Fabrics B&C

• Optimal design for power & cooling*

• Densest blade configurations

• Fully redundant CMCs

*See the PowerEdge M-Series Competitive Power ReportPDF

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PowerEdge M1000e CMC Simple and Scalable Management

Monitor, inventory, update,

configuration and remediation

Scalable

• Interfaces and operations work

across all chassis components

• Automated 1:many operations for

greater productivity

• Update, deploy, configure, fix…

• Ability to span multiple chassis (9)

Simple

• Embedded: nothing additional to

install

• No agents, all out-of-band

• Discovery is built-in

• Easy-to-use, intuitive interfaces

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Simple manageability • All blades provide consolidated management to

help deployment & troubleshooting, but Dell blades

provide an elegant simplicity of approach and

seamless integration of management hardware.

• The Dell Difference:

– The first and only comprehensive “Agent-free”

embedded management solution

– Up to 288 nodes can be managed in multiple

locations around the world through one

interface using just a single IP address

– Deploy faster with fewer resource

requirements

– Seamless integration with industry-leading 3rd

party providers like Microsoft and VMware

– Identify & resolve issues faster with iDRAC7

and Lifecycle Controller technology

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Dell Active Infrastructure

Validated workload solutions that enable reliable, superior application performance

Active

Solutions

Active System

Manager

Active

Systems

Automated workload & infrastructure deployment in a single pane of glass that simplifies service delivery

Scalable & modular integrated systems that deliver faster time to value

Customer Experience

Active Infrastructure ensures customer success across the IT services lifecycle

Accelerate IT service deployment

Maximize efficiency across the IT services lifecycle

Strengthen IT service quality

Accelerates the delivery of IT services with a workload optimized, automated, and integrated infrastructure speeding time to value and lowering cost


Active System 50

Active System 1000

Dell Servers

Active System 200

Active System 800

Dell Storage

Dell Networking

Dell Active Infrastructure Portfolio

Active Solutions

Integrated Infrastructure

Integration Platform

Virtualization

Active Systems

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Pre-Integrated Systems Compatibility Matrix (custom engagement)

IT Services

IT Services Ecosystem

Northbound APIs

Resource Adaptors

Monitoring Data Protection Security

Solution Reference Architectures

Private Cloud Desktop Virtualization Enterprise Applications

Active System Manager

Platform Reference Architectures

Billing

Workload Templates

Infrastructure Templates

3rd Party Dell Software


Dell Enterprise Forum 2013 WHAT’S NEW


Dell Active Infrastructure IT SERVICE CENTRIC, AUTOMATED DATACENTER


Active Infrastructure 1.1


Dell Networking S5000 Converged

LAN/SAN Switch

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