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vStart 1000m for Enterprise Virtualization using Hyper-V – Reference Architecture

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1 Introduction

The vStart 1000 solution is an enterprise infrastructure solution that has been designed and validated

by Dell™ Engineering. It is available partially racked, cabled, and delivered to your site, to speed

deployment. Dell Services will deploy and configure the solution tailored for business needs and ready

to be integrated into your datacenter. vStart 1000 is offered in configurations with either VMware®

vSphere® or Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V® role enabled Hypervisors. The

VMware vSphere solution is the vStart 1000v and the Microsoft Hyper-V solution is the vStart 1000m.

This document will define the Reference Architecture for vStart 1000m.

The architecture defined in this document includes Dell

PowerEdge

M620 blade servers, Dell

Compellent

™

Storage, Dell Force10

™

network switches, Brocade Fibre Channel switches, Microsoft

Windows Server

2008 R2 SP1 Datacenter Edition with Hyper-V

Role enabled, and two Dell PowerEdge

R620 servers that manage the solution by hosting Dell management tools and optionally, System Center

2012 System Center Virtual Machine Manager or other System Center 2012 components.

The configurations also include Compellent Enterprise Manager and OpenManage™ Essentials. The

vStart configurations vary in the number of PowerEdge M620 blade servers and Compellent Series 40

storage enclosures to meet virtualization resource needs.

2 Audience

This document provides an overview of the vStart solution. Readers, including CTOs and IT managers,

can use this document to understand the overview and scope of the solution. IT administrators and

managers can use this document to understand the solution architecture.