DELL LAUNCHES VIRTUALIZATION-OPTIMIZED SERVERS
Dell Launches Virtualization-Optimized Servers
The PowerEdge R805 and R905 are acquirable with either VMware ESXi 3.5 or Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition hypervisors preinstalled.
Both servers are acquirable worldwide. Starting prices are $3,049 for the R805 and $6,499 for the R905.
Besides the newborn products, Dell plans to substance in the reaching weeks the aforementioned VMware and Citrix hypervisors preinstalled in the PowerEdge 2950, R900, R1950, and R2900 and the M600 and M605 steel servers. Dell has also updated its online tools with more options for customers configuring servers for virtualization deployments.
In increment its virtualization-related offerings, Dell also started commerce its EqualLogic hardware arrays with VMware Site Recovery Manager for accumulation endorsement and hardship recovery. Dell has additional the newborn features to its EqualLogic hardware virtualization profession without upbringing the price.
Finally, Dell is substance more consulting services for some filler consort hunting to upgrade, expand, or compel a virtualization environment. Virtualization is digit of the hottest trends in IT today. The profession makes it doable to removed binary playing applications on assorted platforms within the aforementioned server. The compounding makes meliorate ingest of the machine’s processing power, and reduces the requirement to acquire more servers.
Dell is not the exclusive machine concern optimizing its products for virtualization. Rival Hewlett-Packard started substance in March ProLiant servers with Citrix and VMware hypervisors, a category of mini operative grouping utilised in streaming playing applications on removed realistic machines. HP said it also would substance ProLiant and BladeSystem servers with Microsoft’s Hyper-V Server software, which is ordered to board in August.