HP Flex-10 Design, Plan, Implement, Test

Before design phase of VMware vSphere Infrastructure I recommend to read blog post "Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere" to get general overview about server infrastructure and advanced  network interconnect. During design phase prepare detail test plan (aka operational verification) and test it during implementation phase. You can use blog post "Testing Scenario's VMware / HP c-Class Infrastructure" as a template for your test plan. I don't doubt that you normally test infrastructure before put it into production :-)

DELL Active System Manager

DELL Active System is managed by DELL Active System Manager. This is DELL converged infrastructure solution (blade server, networking, storage) to achieve "mainframe of 21st century" with leveraging server virtualization (hypervisors) to have enough flexibility to achieve required infrastructure SLAs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU1I93wEHuU

Configuring a Chassis in Dell Active System Manager
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRO0546yJ8U

IBM PureFlex

IBM Pure Flex System is probably another next generation computing system leveraging converged infrastructure concept. IBM Flex System Manager manages Pure Flex System. Who can honestly and precisely compare it with HP Virtual Connect, CISCO UCS, and DELL Active System?

Introduction video is available at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGpzkQm8kU