Quick and informative insight on data center solution design and best practices

The Dell TechCenter invites you to participate in this open forum to learn from experts at Dell and in the community and to share your own expertise. This forum is dedicated to sharing best practices for design, deployment, management, and protection that extend the capabilities of data center efficiency solutions for virtualization, power and cooling, and blade servers.

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• Visit the Ask the Systems Management Experts page to ask or answer a question about:

• The Dell™ OpenManage™ suite of systems management tools
• The Dell Management Console powered by Altiris™ from Symantec™
• Microsoft® System Center tools
• Other systems management topics

• Visit the Ask the Data Center Efficiency Experts page to ask or answer a question about:

• Deploying or managing virtualization
• Specialized power and cooling solutions
• Dell PowerEdge™ M1000e blade series
• Other topics for simplifying IT and managing efficient data centers

• Visit the Ask the Storage Experts page to ask or answer a question about:

• Managing and maintaining Dell PowerVault™, Dell/EMC, Dell NX4, or Dell EqualLogic™ storage
• Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel networking
• Pooled and tiered storage
• Other storage topics such as replication, snapshots, and migration