Dell has New Dell PowerEdge Servers Built For Virtualization.

The new Dell PowerEdge R805 and R905  servers  are optimized for virtualization with the PowerEdge R805 offering 2X the memory and I/O capacity of Dell’s previous generation 2 socket servers.

With a choice of VMware ESXi 3.5 or Citrix XenServer Dell Express Edition integrated hypervisors, the PowerEdge R805 and R905 servers can deliver the optimal platform for virtualized environments.

The Dell PowerEdge R805 and R905 servers are now available worldwide with a starting price of $3,049 and $6,499 respectively.

The Dell PowerEdge R900 and R905 can deliver the ultimate in 4 socket virtualization performance as some of the first servers to support 60 virtual machines in VMmark  testing with 23 percent higher virtualization performance than the HP ProLiant DL580 G5, 8 percent higher than the IBM System x3850, and 16 percent higher than the Sun Fire X4450.

The PowerEdge R905 delivered price per virtualization performance at 25 percent less cost than the IBM x3850, 36 percent less cost than the Sun X4450, and 15 percent less cost than the HP Proliant DL580.

  This is in addition to Dell’s leadership with number 1 virtualization performance benchmarks in 2 socket servers with the PowerEdge M-Series blades and the PowerEdge 2950III.

Deepa B Sayal/ITvoir Network