TA3402

How Dell Uses Virtualization: Paving the Path to Large-scale Distributed Computing

When you start from the initial assumption of virtualizing every possible workload, it affects how you design your datacenter at every layer. The mainstream adoption of virtualization is well underway, and Dell is focused on assisting customers to architect for the next stage of their journey toward a more flexible and optimized IT environment. In order to design large-scale distributed computing architecture, the infrastructure needs to understand and respond to the virtual Datacenter layer demands for dynamic capacity, performance, and availability. VMware vSphere brings new capabilities by virtualizing and aggregating the underlying physical resources and providing pools of virtual resources to the Data Center which helps pave the path to large-scale distributed architectures.
The Dell vPOD solution enables a dramatically simpler and more efficient model of computing that allows customer to:
- Automatically manage applications to pre-defined SLAs by providing built in availability, security and performance assurance for workloads
- Run applications on a highly unified, reliable, and efficient infrastructure made up of industry standard network, storage and server platforms
- Move applications with the same service level expectations across on-premise computing datacenters
This session will cover the Dell vPOD reference architecture and how Dell customers implemented a large-scale distributed computing architecture across geographies without viewing their data centers as silos of storage, server, network, and application.

Technology & Architecture

Breakout Session

Dell, vPOD, Large-scale Distributed Computing

1 Hour

Paul Rad, Practice Executive, Dell Inc
Tim Webb, Director: Global Data Center and Virtualizaiton Consulting Services, Dell Inc
Kaijun Zhan, IT Group Director, Data Center Operations, Cadence Design Systems, Inc