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Table 3. Customer Infrastructure and vStart Solution
Infrastructure Requirement
Function
vStart Solution Requirements
DNS
Provides name resolution for IP
address to hostnames
Hyper-V hosts, iDRACs, and the
PowerEdge R420 or VM
Management Server require
access to DNS for name
resolution
NTP
Provides time synchronization
services for components in the
solution
PowerConnect switches, and
EqualLogic storage arrays
require time synchronization
Network Routing
Provides a network path in/out
of the vStart LAN switches to the
customer’s network
Existing network routing must be
in place before the vStart
solution can communicate with
database, DNS, NTP, and other
services in the customer’s
environment
5.5 Hyper-V Features
The solution is designed to enable key features of Hyper-V and provides the following benefits
 Consolidate physical servers and workloads as virtual machines.
 Automate the most frequent and time-consuming IT maintenance tasks to maximize
productivity and reduce operational expenses.
 Manage the entire infrastructure including Windows®-based operating systems, business
applications and databases, and heterogeneous hardware and software. Fully licensed to
support the Hyper-V hosts and an unlimited number of 2012 Datacenter VMs via Windows Server
2012 Datacenter Edition.