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HCI and CI


VxRail simplifies lifecycle management Sustained and delivered as a single software update - no more testing, sequencing, and validating

BIOS

Data Protection and Backup

SDS

Hypervisor

Software governance

Virtualization Management

Media Firmware

Components Firmware & Drivers

NIC Firmware

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VxRail software packages

GO FROM

ONE GOOD

KNOWN

STATE TO

THE NEXT


VxRail Manager

Delivers automation, lifecycle management, and

serviceability

• Deploy appliances with ease – over 200 automated

tasks

• Update all software in single click

• Monitor using dashboards for health, events, and

physical views

• Maintain with direct access to support, articles, and

community

Embedded server

management

iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller

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Faster Deployment

Risk-free

Single Interface

Use known tools

Start small

Scale as needed

Speed and Agility

Operational Simplicity

Scale forTomorrow

Why make a move to hyper-converged?


ProcessorAll-flash or hybrid

disk packsRAM

Redundant power &

cooling

Network Connectivity

(1Gbps/10Gbps)GPU (V Series)

What is in a node?

VxRail self-contained hyper-converged infrastructure.


VxRail generational comparison.

E460 E560 Improvement

More and faster cores 40 @ up to 2.2Ghz 56 @ up to 2.5Ghz 40%

More processing power

(Ghz)88 150 1.7X

Faster memory 2400Mhz 2666Mhz 11%

More on-board connectivity 2x10GbE RJ45/SFP+ 4x10GbE RJ45/SFP+ 2X

Network connectivity

expansion6 8 33%

Improved boot device 1 x 64GB SATADOMBOSS RAID 1 with 2 x

240GB SATA M.2 More resiliency

VxRail on

14th Gen

PowerEdge


VxRail on 14th Gen PowerEdge excels.

Sustained sub-ms response times and up to 2X more IOPs

VxRail P570

421,000 IOPs @ 1.6 ms

VxRail P470:

217,000 IOPs @ +6 ms

Up to 2X

More IOPS

OLTP 4K

70/30 R/W workload

RAID-5 with Checksum

14th Generation

Sustained sub-ms response time

@ up to 80% of CPU Utilization


What’s new VxRail on 14th Gen PowerEdge servers

V Series Nodes P Series Nodes S Series Nodes E Series Nodes

VDI optimized Performance optimized Storage dense Efficient

V570/F P570/F S570 E560/F

Full platform refresh to Dell EMC 14th Gen PowerEdge servers based on Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family

Higher core counts, faster clock frequency, more memory channels, faster memory, higher endurance and redundant boot devices

2000W PSU

Up to 3 GPUs

8 more capacity drives

Quad port 10GbE onboard

1600W PSU

Single or dual socket

8 more capacity drives

Quad port 10GbE onboard

Quad port

10GbE onboard

Quad port

10GbE onboard


Processor

Choice of 31 Intel scalable processors4 to 56 cores per node

straightstraight

VxRail configuration flexibility for your workloadE, P, S, V Series based on Dell PowerEdge 14th Generation servers

RAM

24 DIMM slots

16GB RDIMM32GB RDIMM64GB LRDIMM

Power supply

1100W AC / 1600W AC / 2000W AC

1100W 48V DC

Storage

Cache SSDs: 400GB, 800GB, 1600GBSSDs (SAS & SATA) : 1.92TB, 3.84TB

HDDs: 1.2TB, 2.0TB, 4.0TB

Base networking

SFP+ or RJ45

4x 10GbE4x1GBE (auto negotiate)

Optional add-on NICs

GPUs

NVIDIA

Note: GPU SW & driverssold separately

VxRail on

14th Gen

PowerEdge


Single node scaling and upgradesMinimizes risk and enables pay as you grow

START WITH WHAT YOU NEEDMinimize risk by closely

matching your requirements

3-64

nodes

SCALE OUTAdd as few a one node to

increase performance and capacity

Predictable

linear pricing

by node

SCALE UPIncrementally add storage

as data grows

Best for

unexpected

storage

growth

Nodes within a chassis must be homogenous

Populate homogenous drives across all available nodes


The best technology for the leading virtualization ecosystem

DATA AT REST ENCRYPTIONNATIVE HCI ENCRYPTION

ENHANCED STRETCHED CLUSTERSLOCAL AND SITE PROTECTION

50%FASTER ALL

FLASH

35%LATENCY REDUCTION

VxRail is now powered by vSAN 6.6.


Addresses fears of media theft

• Configured for entire cluster

• Works with both all-flash and hybrid

• Works with dedupe and compression

• Compliance with FIPS 140-2 Level 1, AES 256

• Key management using KMIP-compliant KMS

vendors

New in

VxRail 4.5

with vSAN

6.6

vSphere + vSAN

vSAN Datastore

SSD SSD SSD

Data-at-Rest-Encryption (D@RE).


Addresses fears of rogue admin

• Per VM level setting

• No dedupe & compression

• In-flight (over the wire)

• Key management using KMIP-compliant KMS

vendors

vSphere 6.5 Encryption.New in

VxRail 4.5

vSphere + vSAN

vSAN Datastore

SSD SSD SSD


3rd site witness

5ms RTT, 10GbE

vSAN

100Mbps200ms RTTL3

RAID-1/5/6 RAID-1/5/6

RAID-1

• Redundancy locally and across sites

• With site failure, vSAN maintains availability with local redundancy in surviving site

• No change in stretched cluster configuration steps

• Optimized site locality logic to minimize I/O traffic across sites

• RAID 1 of RAID 1/5/6 for all-flash

• RAID 1 of RAID 1 for hybrid

New in

VxRail 4.5

with vSAN

6.6Stretched clusters with local protection.


PaaS

Collaboration

and

Analytics

IaaSServer

Workloads

VDIDistributed

Enterprise

Broad range of VxRail custom BYO use cases


• Mix/match nodes and right size CPU, memory,

storage, and network resource requirements

• Guarantee uptime with industry leading data

protection & HA features from Dell EMC & VMware

that meet any RPO/RTO

• Pay as you grow scaling featuring scale out options

with up to 64 nodes in a single cluster

• Used for any enterprise workloads supported by

vSphere and vSAN

VxRail for general server workloads

PaaS

Collaboration

and

Analytics

IaaSServer

Workloads

VDIDistributed

Enterprise


• Lower cost of entry deployment for each remote

location starting with as little as 3 nodes

• Simple, standard set up and updates can be done

remotely by IT staff

• Tailor compute & capacity needs for each site

• Single management for all appliances

VxRail for distributed enterprise deployments

PaaS

Collaboration

and

Analytics

IaaSServer

Workloads

VDIDistributed

Enterprise


• Simple to deploy infrastructure using customer built

environment of their choice

• Support data analytics and collaboration

applications on proven vSphere based hyper-

converged infrastructure

– Hadoop, Hortonworks, Exchange, Sharepoint, Splunk,

etc.

• Storage dense infrastructure configuration options

coming in a small 2U1N footprint

VxRail for collaboration and analytics

PaaS

Collaboration

and

Analytics

IaaSServer

Workloads

VDIDistributed

Enterprise


• Overcome the traditionally high CAPEX barrier of

VDI

• Support for high end graphics VDI with enhanced

GPU support as well as general purpose

environments

• Available all flash configuration options easily

handle peak performance requirements (boot

storms, etc.)

• Low incremental cost and OPEX

• Deploy hundreds of VDTs in minutes

• Support for VMware Horizon and Citrix

XenDesktop

VxRail for VDI

PaaS

Collaboration

and

Analytics

IaaSServer

Workloads

VDIDistributed

Enterprise


• Fully integrated with Cloud Management Platform

software for IaaS

– VMware vRealize Suite

– VMware vCloud Director

• Auto load balancing ensures consistent

performance

• Predictable pay-as-you-grow deployment

• Flexible end point solution seamlessly extends

cloud infrastructure resources

VxRail as infrastructure for IaaS

PaaS

Collaboration

and

Analytics

IaaSServer

Workloads

VDIDistributed

Enterprise


• Flexible and elastic infrastructure used as part of

your pool of underlying IaaS resources

• IT teams can leverage existing VMware skills to

provide a cloud native platform for developers

• Mix and match nodes and right size CPU, memory,

storage, and network resources to meet cloud

native application requirements

• Support for a wide variety of the top PaaS

platforms in the marketplace

VxRail as infrastructure for PaaS

PaaS

Collaboration

and

Analytics

IaaSServer

Workloads

VDIDistributed

Enterprise


What is inside VxRail?

LIFECYCLE

MANAGEMENT AND

SUPPORT TOOLS

POWERED BY

VMWARE

vSAN

INCLUDED DATA

PROTECTION

OPTIONS

vSAN Enterprise

vCenter Server

vRealize Log Insight

vSphere Ready*

RecoverPoint for VMs

vSphere Replication

vSphere Data Protection

VxRail Manager

Secure Remote Support

*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses

A full suite of capabilities included at no additional charge


Data Protection Suite for VMware.End to end data protection for VMware based environments

▪ Market-Leading Integration with VMware

▪ Empower vAdmins by providing self-service protection to users

▪ Software-Only Data Protection

▪ Hypervisor based replication for any point-in-time recovery

▪ Backup system scales to 16 TB when configured with DD VE

▪ Shortened Backup Times and Storage Cost Savings

▪ 30x faster image recovery than traditional backups

▪ 10-30x reduction in backup storage

▪ Application Consistency

▪ Across the broadest application landscape

Note: DPS for VMware is licensed separately. Sold via channel partners only.


Dell EMC solutions

BuyTurnkey, single vendor lifecycle assurance

BuildSimplify procurement, deployment, and lifecycle

Reduce risk, accelerate time to value, deliver lifecycle assurance

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