1. Deploy Converged Infrastructure with Simplicity, Speed, and Confidence
Dell EMC Ready Stack
Deploy Converged Infrastructure with Simplicity, Speed, and Confidence
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2. Multiple Pathways to Get Modern from Dell EMC
The #1 leader in the converged and hyper-converged infrastructure
Dell EMC is home to the industry’s leading portfolio of fully-engineered converged infrastructure (CI) and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, including:
VxBlock Systems (CI)
VxRail Appliances (HCI)
VxRack FLEX (HCI)
VxRack SDDC (HCI)
XC Series (HCI)
Ready Solutions (CI/HCI/Other)
While fully-engineered systems offer turnkey experiences and the fastest path to modernization for those wanting to buy, many organizations also seek the flexibility to build converged infrastructure solutions themselves.
Dell EMC is the worldwide leader in converged (CI) and hyper-converged (HCI) infrastructure. With solutions like VxBlock Systems and VxRail appliances, Dell EMC helps businesses simplify IT and transform operations by providing turnkey, fully-engineered systems that customers can buy. However, many organizations seek some of the benefits of converged infrastructure but with the flexibility and choice of building their own solution, in tandem with trusted partners.

3. Introducing Dell EMC Ready Stack
Build converged infrastructure with simplicity, speed, and confidence
Ready Stack enables you to build your own converged infrastructure solutions!
What is Dell EMC Ready Stack?
A portfolio of Certified Reference Systems based on the industry’s leading product building blocks from Dell EMC
Sold by Dell EMC Sales and Partners, fulfilled by Dell Technologies Channel Partners
Backed by Dell EMC guidance and resources that speed sizing, design, and deployment
Tested, Proven, and Trusted with integrated Dell EMC support, services, and data protection options
Meet Dell EMC Ready Stack. Ready Stack delivers converged infrastructure solutions with simplicity and speed of deployment, and maximum flexibility.
What is a Certified Reference System? Industry analyst firm IDC defines a Certified Reference System as a pre-integrated, vendor-certified system containing server, storage, networking, and basic component management software. Dell EMC Ready Stack combines all these elements and more, and features validation by Dell EMC’s expert engineering team, the original pioneers and continuing leaders in converged infrastructure.

4. Ready Stack Enables You to Build with the Best
Simplify and accelerate the deployment of converged systems with the best:
Product: Build your solution with Dell EMC’s best- in-class technology components, including the #1 servers, storage, open networking, and data protection choices
Platform: Support leading virtualization and IaaS platforms, including those from VMware, Microsoft and leading container-based platforms, or deploy bare metal
Portfolio: Gain access to an unmatched range of options from the Dell Technologies portfolio, ranging from Dell EMC infrastructure to Dell workstations, Secureworks information security to Dell Boomi cloud-based integration and API management, and more. Build a complete solution from single vendor.
Bare Metal
Dell EMC Servers #1 in Servers
Dell EMC Networking #1 in Open Networking
Dell EMC Storage #1 in Storage
Ready Stack enables the accelerated deployment of full-stack converged infrastructure solutions by connecting you with the best:
Product: Build with the best technology building blocks, all from Dell EMC
Platform: Support top virtualization and IaaS platforming, including VMware, Microsoft, bare metal, and cutting-edge container platforms
Portfolio: The unmatched depth and experience of the Dell Technologies engineering and technology portfolio. 1 1 1 1
Dell EMC Data Protection #1 in Data Protection 1 1 1

5. Ready Stack Benefits Simplicity Speed Confidence
The simplicity of a complete infrastructure stack, leveraging the industry’s leading technology:
Dell EMC Storage, including powerful all-flash
Dell EMC 14G PowerEdge and new MX Series server platforms
Dell EMC Open Networking
Dell EMC Data Protection
Compatibility with multiple hypervisors and/or bare metal deployments, as well as the latest container based platforms
Rapid speed of deployment and value, accelerated by trusted Dell EMC guidance that lowers risk and saves time with:
Sizing, Design, Architecture, and Deployments guides, produced by Dell EMC’s technical and engineering experts
The Dell EMC Ready Stack digital library of resources to help you speed your solution
Gain confidence through an unmatched foundation of protection and trust:
A wide choice of data protection options from the Dell EMC portfolio
True integrated support from a single vendor, Dell EMC
Opportunities to leverage trusted partner services to further reduce risk and accelerate time to value
Ready Stack makes it easier, faster, and less risky to build your own and deploy a converged infrastructure solution.

6. Stacking Higher than the Competition
Dell EMC Ready Stack
FlexPod
N/A
Digital Transformation/IT Transformation/ Workforce Transformation/Security Transformation
N/A
Combined portfolio of Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, Secureworks, Virtustream, VMware, and Dell Boomi
Single supplier of all components in stack
Two suppliers for components
Best in class components - #1 in everything
Narrower product portfolio
True integrated support from the #1 CI leader
Here are six key areas where Dell EMC Ready Stack provides unique value over NetApp FlexPod. With Ready Stack, you get a truly converged experience with the flexibility to build your own solution, using the #1 technology components all with ONE vendor.
Coordinated support model, #2 in CI
Complete portfolio of data protection
Limited options for data protection

7. Dell EMC Ready Stack Certified Reference Systems Portfolio
This section presents a look at our current portfolio of Ready Stack certified reference systems. Keep in mind that in addition to these, you may select any combination of Dell EMC storage and servers, plus other technology components, to make your own Ready Stack.

8. Ready Stack Certified Reference Systems Portfolio
VMware vSphere on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage
Ready Stack:
VMware IaaS on PowerEdge MX Servers and PowerMax Storage
Ready Stack:
Microsoft Hyper-V on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage
Dell EMC Unity Storage
Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (14th generation)
Dell EMC S-Series Switches
Dell EMC Data Protection
VMware vSphere Virtualization Platform
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Blade Enclosure
Dell EMC PowerMax Storage
Dell EMC S-Series Switches
Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance
VMware IaaS with VMware vCenter Unified Management and Monitoring
Dell EMC Unity Storage
Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (14th generation)
Dell EMC S-Series Switches
Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance
Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization Platform
Our currently portfolio, featuring a range of technology components and virtualization platforms.

9. Ready Stack: VMware vSphere on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage
Technology components include Unity storage, PowerEdge servers, S-Series switches, data protection options, and the VMware vSphere Virtualization platform
Benefits:
No single point of failure: Redundancy is incorporated, including high- availability server, network, and storage features
Integrated management: VMware vCenter and Virtual Storage Integrator provide leading management and monitoring
Made for virtualization: Designed for virtualization workloads, with ample processor, memory, and networking resources available
Quickly and easily deploy a converged infrastructure for VMware vSphere.

10. Ready Stack: VMware IaaS on PowerEdge MX Servers and PowerMax Storage
Technology components include PowerEdge MX7000 blade enclosure, PowerMax storage, S-Series switches, Integrated Data Protection Appliance, and VMware IaaS with vCenter Unified Management and Monitoring
Benefits:
Modular, software-defined infrastructure: PowerEdge MX7000 enables you to dynamically assign, move, and scale shared pools of compute, storage, and fabric with greater flexibility and efficiency, delivering optimum value
Powerful All-Flash storage: PowerMax delivers scale-out storage architecture based on the latest NVMe technology.
Integrated data protection: Integrated Date Protection Appliance (IDPA) backup solution combines protection storage with software, search, analytics, and simplified management
A powerful converged infrastructure stack that uses cutting-edge MX7000 blade chassis and PowerMax storage to support a true VMware Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment.

11. Ready Stack: Microsoft Hyper-V on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage
Technology components include Unity storage, PowerEdge servers, S-Series switches, Integrated Data Protection Appliance(IDPA), and Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization Platform.
Benefits:
Resiliency, scalability, and virtualization support: No single point of failure and flexibility to support multiple configurations
Powerful All-Flash storage: Consistent performance with low response times, perfect for mixed workload requirements
Integrated management: Includes integrated management through Dell EMC OpenManage Integrations (OMI) for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
Quickly and easily deploy a converged infrastructure for Microsoft Hyper-V.

12. Build your own Ready Stack from ANY combination of Dell EMC’s leading product portfolio
Data Protection
Servers
Storage
#1 Servers
#1 In Storage
#1 Combined
Protection Storage and Software
Cloud Infrastructure
Modern Data Center
All Flash
#1 Flash Arrays
In addition to the certified reference systems currently released, you may build your own custom Ready Stack solution using any combination of storage, server, and other technology components from the Dell Technologies portfolio.
#1 Provider
#1 Provider
of Virtualized Data Center Infrastructure

13. Full-Stack Solutions Backed by the Dell EMC Ready Stack Digital Library
Ready Stack infrastructure solutions are backed by a robust library of engineering and technical resources, including:
Ready Stack Design Guides
Ready Stack Deployment Guides
Ready Stack Architecture Guides
Solution Overviews
The Ready Stack Community
Design Guide
Deployment Guide
Sizing Recommendations
These guides provide unmatched engineering expertise from Dell EMC, the pioneers in converged and hyper-converged infrastructure, and de-risk deployments of your own Ready Stack CI solutions
Dell EMC Ready Stack certified reference systems are backed by a robust library of engineering documentation and technical resources, including Design, Deployment, Architecture, and Sizing guides. The expertise of Dell EMC engineering provides you the guidance you need to de-risk your own full-stack solution deployments.

14. Gain All the Benefits of Dell EMC Products
With Ready Stack, you GAIN all existing benefits that are part-and-parcel of existing products. For example, a Ready Stack system utilizing a PowerMax storage array includes coverage by the Future Proof Loyalty Program that normally applies to storage, CI, HCI, and data protection products. The Future Proof Loyalty for storage is just one great example. The features and benefits of Dell EMC products extend far and wide. From servers to storage, SAN to integrated appliances, Ready Stack is your entry to the “greatest hits” of Dell Technologies!
With Ready Stack, you gain all existing benefits of the component products you choose for your solution. For example, selecting a data storage product such as PowerMax brings all the features and benefits of PowerMax into your system, including coverage for the storage by the Future-Proof Loyalty Program. The same goes for server, networking, and more– all component benefits stay intact as you build your own Ready Stack. Consider Ready Stack a “greatest hits” collection of the best in Dell EMC technology components, hand selected by you and/or Dell Partners!
Greatest Hits

15. Unmatched Partner Ecosystem
Dell EMC Partners are technology experts who help understand and solve your business problems.
Unmatched range of competencies, from servers to storage, core to cloud, workstations to IT transformation
Global network that makes modernization real for organizations of all sizes
Wide variety of models and solutions to de-risk deployments
Exclusive Ready Stack providers
For more on partners, visit or DellEMC.com/Partners.
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