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3 Solution Overview

This section provides a high-level product overview of Microsoft Hyper-V, Dell PowerEdge blade

servers, Dell Force10 Network Switches, Brocade 5100 Fibre Channel Switches, and Dell Compellent

Storage, as illustrated in Figure 1 and Figure 2 below. Readers can skip the sections of products with

which they are familiar.

Figure 1: Overview of Dell Blade Servers, Dell Force10 network switches, Brocade Fibre Channel switches,

Dell Compellent Storage, and Microsoft Hyper-V

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

With Hyper-V role Enabled

· Failover Clustering (High Availability and Live

Migration)

· Dynamic Memory

Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers

· Energy efficient PowerEdge M1000e enclosure

· 12

generation M620 blade server

· Intel Xeon E5 series processors

· Flex Address

· CMC and iKVM for enclosure management

Dell Force10 S4810 Switches

· High-density 48-port 10 GbE switch with four 40

GbE uplinks

· Ultra-low-latency, non-blocking, cut-through

switch ensures line-rate L2 and L3 performance

· Integrated network automation and

virtualization tools via the Open Automation

Framework

Brocade 5100 Fibre Channel Switches

· 1U 40 port high density switch

· 1, 2, 4, and 8Gbps Fibre Channel

Dell Compellent Storage array

· Fluid Data Architecture with Thin Provisioning

and Automated Tiered Storage

· Centralized management using Enterprise

Manager

· Fast Track

Microsoft System Center 2012

· Virtual Machine Manager – Hypervisor and VM

management