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3.11 Dell Cloud Connectivity using VMware vCloud Connector

VMware vCloud Connector lets you view, operate on, and transfer your computing resources across

vSphere and vCloud Director in your private cloud environment, as well as Dell vCloud public cloud.

 Expand your view across hybrid clouds. Use a "single pane of glass" management interface that

seamlessly spans your private vSphere and public Dell vCloud environment.

 Extend your datacenter. Move VMs, vApps, and templates from private vSphere to a Dell

vCloud to free up your on-premise datacenter resources as needed.

 Consume cloud resources with confidence. Run Development, QA, and production workloads

using Dell vCloud, a VMware technology-based public cloud.

The Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud™ Datacenter is an enterprise-class, multi-tenant infrastructure-as-

a-service (IaaS) public cloud solution that is hosted in secured Dell data centers. Utilizing VMware

vCloud Connector, Dell Cloud provides you with unique hybrid cloud capabilities to extend your internal

data center with Dell and VMware by transitioning your VMware virtualized workloads into our vCloud

data center. vCloud hosting provides you with a secure, manageable, and flexible public cloud

application.

For more information, see Dell vCloud website.

4 Design Principles

The following principles are central to the design and architecture of Active System 800v Solution.

1. Converged Network: The infrastructure is designed to achieve end-to-end LAN and SAN

convergence.

2. Redundancy with no single point-of-failure: Redundancy is incorporated in every critical

aspect

of the solution, including server high availability features, networking, and storage.

3. Management: Provide integrated management using VMware vCenter, Dell Management Plug-in

for VMware vCenter, Dell OpenManage Essentials, and Equallogic Virtual Storage Manager (VSM)

for VMware plug-in.

4. Cloud Enabled: The solution also includes connectivity to Dell vCloud using VMware vCloud

Connector.

5. Integration into an existing data center: This architecture assumes that there is an existing

10 Gb Ethernet infrastructure with which to integrate.

6. Hardware configuration for virtualization: This solution is designed for virtualization for most

general cases. Each blade server is configured with appropriate processor, memory, and

network adapters, as required for virtualization.

7. Racked, Cabled, and Ready to be deployed: Active System 800v is available racked, cabled,

and delivered to the customer site, ready for deployment. Components are configured and

racked to optimize airflow and thermals. Based on customer needs, different rack sizes and

configurations are available to support various datacenter requirements.

Out of band management is not considered critical to user workload and does not have redundancy.