Huge Dell announcements at #VMworld 2013: S6000, new VMware Integration, Plug-ins and more!

 It’s been a crazy BUSY couple of days here at VMworld 2013 in lovely San Francisco.  We at Dell TechCenter have been at the opening reception, keynote, recording exhibit hall demos/interviews, running from zombies, attending sessions, as well as covering all the exciting Dell and VMware announcements!  The topic that has the most buzz at the conference thus far is easily VMware's announcement of NSX -- Their new network virtualization platform.   

As you can see from the picture above, we have a massive Dell Booth for 2013 staffed with the big guns --a vast array of experts on hand making for incredibly awesome demos and discussions.  Topics included software, storage, services, VRTX, vCenter plugins, project Ophelia, and much much more!  Peter (@supertsai) and I have been recording a TON of technical content that you will start to see on www.delltechcenter.com over the next few days and weeks.  Here’s one of the highlights we were able to edit and upload while here on site, covering the Dell Networking S6000 announced today and it's integration/support of VMware's newly announced NSX:

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Speaking of exciting Dell Announcements, we captured these highlights on the VMworld TechCenter page:

Dell at VMworld 2013 Announcements:

Dell Networking S6000 - Fully-featured, high-density 1RU data center switch – Upgrade density while reducing rack space of larger chassis solutions with a slim 1RU switch. 32 ports of 40GE in a small footprint 1RU (96 ports of 10G (breakout mode) and 8 ports of 40G). 2.56Tbps throughput, low-latency performance of 600ns, powered by FTOS software. 

Built-in virtualization, Software Defined Networking and Network Virtualization support. Scale flexibly to support multiple types of fabrics, while seamlessly providing automated delivery of workloads and VM mobility across virtual environments. Integrated automation, scripting and programmatic management - Reduce deployment time with Bare Metal Provisioning , scripting and other capabilities with Dell Open Automation Framework support while reducing costs and resources.

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter 2.0 - streamline lifecycle management of Dell PowerEdge servers through the integration of iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller capabilities within the vCenter console. Version 2.0 supports vSphere 5.5 and VMware’s vSphere Web Client.   OMI unites the acclaimed embedded management capabilities of PowerEdge servers with the advanced management features of VMware vCenter Server and VMware vSphere clients.  Streamline management tasks including monitoring servers, maintaining hardware inventory and performing cluster-level firmware updates.  OpenManage Integration v2.0 additionally extends support for up to ten vCenter installations allowing easy, on-demand environmental scaling (formerly Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter)

Dell Compellent vSphere Client Plug-in 2.0 and Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager for VMware 4.0, provide seamless integration with vSphere 5.5, enabling users to manage and provision storage, and easily protect and recover VMs using snapshot and replication schedules with the management of multiple storage arrays from a single VMware vSphere Web Client interface. 

Dell Fault Resilient Memory - A technology developed by Dell and VMware, this innovation allows Dell PowerEdge 12th generation server customers using VMware vSphere 5.5 to maximize available server memory while increasing protection for the hypervisor against memory faults, providing a stable virtualization platform for mission critical applications. 

Dell VMworld 2013 Press Release - Dell Delivers Innovative Cloud and Virtualization Solutions Blending VMware Technology with Dell End-to-End Offerings 

In addition there were several related Dell VMware blogs posted today:

It’s been a great event thus far with much more to come.   If you are here, I’d love to meet you – hit me on twitter: @jeffsullivan.  And if you decided to take a pass on this year’s event, please Iet me know what I should capture for the www.delltechcenter.com community.