Dell has launched new infrastructure management, storage and networking services designed to help customers automate their data centres.
With 10GbE as the underlying fabric, along with integrated and heterogeneous infrastructure management tools, customers can change the economics of their datacentre by increasing performance while decreasing costs, the company claims.
According to Dell, the new infrastructure management offerings include, an advanced infrastructure manager which enables customers to allocate workloads by altering server, networking and storage devices without the need to re-cable, reconfigure or reload software. It integrates with existing, heterogeneous environments and supports both physical and virtual workloads, allowing IT administrators to deploy physical server images.
The Business Ready Configurations bring together the new server, storage and networking technologies. It is powered by 2 PowerEdge M610 blade servers running the Infrastructure Manager, an EqualLogic PS6000 iSCSI storage area network (SAN) service, 2 PowerConnect 6220M blade switches and a 24-port Brocade Foundry 424 or PowerConnect 6224 networking switch, the company said.
The company said that the Lifecycle Controller is an embedded management offering available on 11th generation PowerEdge servers and is designed to facilitate deployment and maintenance. With the new version 1.3, server administrators can remotely discover servers on the network, update drivers and deploy OS anywhere. Replaced hardware peripherals like network interface cards are updated to the replaced part’s firmware automatically from the Lifecycle Controller.
Dell is also introducing 10GbE controllers to its EqualLogic PS6000 series storage arrays. The new EqualLogic PS6010 and PS6510 offer up to 10 times more bandwidth per port and up to 2.5 times more bandwidth per array than previous versions. It is also introducing the EqualLogic PS6500X and version 4.3 of the EqualLogic firmware that together increase the capacity of the EqualLogic PS series of products. The new PowerConnect 8024F is 1U 10GbE switch featuring 24 ports with SFP+ and four combo 10GBase-T ports with 10Gb capabilities across all ports.
In addition, Dell is also introducing Converged Network Adapter for PowerEdge servers based on technology from QLogic. The dual port CNA allows users to connect their servers to fibre channel SANs through a 10Gb enhanced ethernet fabric because of the FCoE functionality. It will be offering support for data centre networking services including FCoE switch, security, iSCSI and converged enhanced DCB ethernet.
