Dell FlexAddress Simplifies Blade Deployment and Management
ROUND ROCK, Texas (Business Wire EON) July 1, 2008 --
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL):
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Low-Cost Solution for Blade IO Virtualization, Deployment and
Reducing Downtime
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Utilizes Existing Networking Investments; No Need to ‘Switch
Your Switch’
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Achieves up to 100 Percent More Networking and Storage Connectivity
at Half the Cost of HP Virtual Connect
Dell has followed on the successful introduction of its PowerEdge
M-Series blade server solution with Dell FlexAddress, a patent
pending tool for blade chassis virtualization and persistent identity.
Dell FlexAddress is a simple, low-cost way for customers to deploy and
manage blade infrastructures while reducing data center downtime. Dell
FlexAddress is enabled by a special SD card for the PowerEdge M1000e
Chassis Management Controller (CMC) and the latest firmware. The
FlexAddress SD card is now available worldwide with a starting price of
$499. For more information, visit www.dell.com/blades.
“We delivered one of the greenest, most
energy-efficient blade solutions on the planet with the PowerEdge
M-Series and now we’re making it one of the
most flexible,” said Rick Becker, vice
president of software and solutions, Dell Product Group. “FlexAddress
frees customers from existing high-cost, proprietary tools, and enables
them to utilize existing networking infrastructure and knowledge to
handle predictable or even unplanned changes in their data center
without affecting the network.”
Dell and Partners Declare: No Longer a Need to “Switch
Your Switch” for Blades
Dell FlexAddress allows any M-Series blade enclosure to abstract the
Fibre Channel World
Wide Name (WWN) and Ethernet/iSCSI Media
Access Control (MAC) from the blade hardware and, instead, tie it
persistently to a slot in the M1000e chassis. This feature provides
customers with an efficient, flexible and consistent infrastructure.
Dell FlexAddress is managed by the Chassis Management Controller (CMC)
in the PowerEdge M1000e, keeping it agnostic to the IO module and
avoiding the need to “switch your switch.”
Customers can achieve 100 percent more network and storage (LAN and SAN)
connectivity at half the cost of HP Virtual Connect by enabling
automated deployment configuration in advance and network stacking. This
speeds network configuration and management by virtualizing the switches
across up to 8 chassis (up to 128 servers), making them appear as a
single virtual switch. FlexAddress also works with all Dell pass-through
modules.
“Dell has provided M-Series customers with a
powerful tool to help simplify the management of the data center while
taking advantage of the intelligent network, management and advanced
security capabilities of Cisco's Ethernet switches,”
said Ed Chapman, vice president of product management, Server Access and
Virtualization Business Unit for Cisco.
“Dell’s
FlexAddress offers seamless integration with Cisco network and device
management tools. This integration eliminates the need for additional
changes to existing management and infrastructure.”
“Dell customers will truly benefit from the
flexibility of choice in industry standard networking products as well
as the powerful capabilities Dell’s new
FlexAddress technology delivers,” said Madhu
Matta, Vice President, Server Connectivity Business, Brocade.
“The combination of FlexAddress and Brocade’s
Access Gateway technologies help eliminate costly training and
translates into greater IT simplification.”
Blade Deployment and Management Made Easy
Dell FlexAddress helps save customers time, money and resources because
changes to the underlying hardware, whether upgrades or replacements,
are transparent to the network. Additionally, since Dell FlexAddress is
controlled by the Chassis Management Controller (CMC), it doesn’t
add a management layer. This means it can seamlessly integrate into the
network management tools already used in any data center today, such as
CiscoWorks.
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