Dell VMware ESX Server 3i Solution Manual

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Solution Guide 7Improved ReliabilityHard drives represent one of the greatest sources of hardware failures in datacenter environments. Shared storage arrays (fibre channel or iSCSI) are bettersuited for virtual machine (VM) and data storage than local hard drives,providing higher levels of performance and increased single point of failurerecovery. Additionally, solid-state, internal storage is easier to configure thanother hard drive-less solutions, such as Boot-from-SAN. Because sharedstorage arrays are required to take advantage of ESX Server 3i enterprise andstandard-level features, Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) and High-Availability (HA), server local hard drives are not needed.Rapid Deployment and ProvisioningDell offers VMware ESX Server 3i pre-installed direct from the Dell factory,enabling greatly simplified data center deployment and provisioning. For thefirst time, VMware users have the ability to go from box to rack to processingworkloads in minutes.Dell Supported ConfigurationsServer PowerEdge R805Processors Two Dual/Quad Core AMD Opteron 2200/2300Memory (Min/Max) 8 GB/128 GBStorage Adapters for InternalDisksPERC 6/i Integrated;SAS 6/iR IntegratedStorage Adapter for ExternalDisksSAS 5/EPERC 6/EFibre Channel HBA(required for SANconnectivity only)All supported Fibre Channel HBAsNetworking Four integrated network ports, All supportedperipheral NICsDell Remote AccessController (DRAC)DRAC 5 (required)Internal Storage Up to two 2.5” SAS/SATA disks