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Dell Virtualization Services can help you identify immediate results by designing and implementing practical, reliable and comprehensive solutions for your unique environment. Virtualization services from Dell provide the following benefits:
  • Provide a flexible, tested process to virtualization, matched to your current user needs and future demands.
  • Create operational advantage through increased provisioning agility and the ability to reach TCO savings of up to 25%.*
  • Trusted single point of contact for a complete virtualization solution.
  • Remove complexity from your server infrastructure by implementing tested and validated solutions featuring standards-base systems and best of breed technologies.


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The Right Approach to Virtualization

Dell's virtualization expertise and best practices provide outstanding quality and value - Dell's service professionals can help you achieve the full benefits of virtualization technology with solutions that provide:
  • A standards-based virtualization strategy that can help lower costs and preserve choice and control.
  • A direct, uncomplicated approach that simplifies implementation, speeding time to productivity.
  • Solutions designed to deliver leading performance, availability and overall value.

Workshops

Dell technology workshops help customers understand the potential of virtualization technology. They complement any phase of the solution life-cycle.

Dell experts can:
  • Show you how virtualization technology can meet your current and future requirements.
  • Take you on an in-depth, hands-on guided tour of the new technology.
And…Workshops help you focus on your most critical needs, including:
  • Adopting Virtualization as a cornerstone of datacenter operations.
  • Consolidating servers with Physical to Virtual migration.
  • Business Continuity.
  • Optimizing/upgrading your current virtualized environment.

Assessment

Assessments are designed to help you make informed decisions to maximize the benefits of virtualization in your unique environment. At the conclusion of the assessment phase, Dell experts will have identified the full scope of solution options and will provide recommendations for maximizing value.

Key activities during the assessment include:
  • Running of automated discovery tools and conducting interviews with key personnel within your organization to determine the full range of current and future systems requirements.
  • Planning server consolidation -- including which servers to consolidate, when to consolidate them and how with Dell’s expert recommendations.
  • Providing Total Cost of Ownership analysis.

Design

Design services lay the path for success by providing a comprehensive and detailed virtualization architecture and implementation plan – based on our experience-driven best practices. At the conclusion of the design engagement you will have a complete understanding of how the solution can be implemented successfully in your environment with minimal end-user disruption.

Implementation

Dell experts can implement your complete virtualization solution – hardware and software – so that you can you quickly capture the value of the solution.

Implementation services include:
  • Deployment of Dell enterprise hardware into your staging environment.
    Example: Dell/EMC SANs with VMotion for VM migration.
  • Installation and configuration of powerful virtualization software including:
    VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
    VMware VirtualCenter
  • Validation of the system – including conducting pilot consolidation and data migration to the new system.
  • Empowerment of your IT team to efficiently administer your solution as Dell’s experts provide knowledge transfer.
  • Promotion of the systems to your production environment, performance monitoring and configuration fine tuning as needed.

Support

Take advantage of Dell’s Enterprise Support Services to support your new solution: Dell provides a modular suite of robust offerings, covering system support and maintenance. At the core of this suite are four bundles combining alternative levels of technical phone support, on-site* services, and account management features designed to address increasing levels of system uptime.
For details go to Enterprise Support Services.

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