Dell EMC expanded its converged systems portfolio by integrating its PowerEdge servers into VxRail Appliances and VxRack System 1000 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to address new use cases.
The VxRail Appliance Family, the industry’s only HCI appliances specifically developed and fully optimized for VMware environments, now have configurations powered by the Intel Broadwell Platforms, VMware vSphere and VMware VSAN technologies and based on PowerEdge servers. These feature 40% more CPU performance for the same price, increased flexibility and scalability with more configurations, all-flash nodes equipped with 2x more storage and a new 3-node entry point that is 25% less expensive. This includes storage heavy workloads including Big Data Analytics and Microsoft Exchange. This can take advantage of VxRail Appliances based on the PowerEdge R730xd platform.
Another feature is the graphics-heavy client virtualization workloads that require increasing levels of performance found in the latest operating systems, and the remote office/branch office environments can leverage the low-end 3-node entry option across the family allowing customers to deploy hyper-converged infrastructure to simplify IT management at multiple remote sites.
For customers seeking to accelerate time-to-value of an enterprise-class client virtualization solution, Dell EMC will offer new configurations of VxRail Appliances with VMware Horizon. The solutions are optimized for client virtualization in order to provide deployment and management of virtual workspaces. The solution is validated by Dell EMC with support from VMware and NVIDIA.
VxRack System 1000 is the only rack-scale hyper-converged system with integrated Spine-Leaf networking and SDN options. Now based on PowerEdge R630 and R730xd servers, these VxRack Systems offer more capacity and 40% more CPU performance without increasing footprint or cost. With more than 20 new configurations, customers have the flexibility to add as needed configurations.
Some of the benefits of the VxRack System all-flash configurations include better all-flash economics that offer 2.5x more usable flash capacity for a similar price versus previous generations. It also accelerates application with SanDisk DAS Cache speeds storage I/O operations while reducing latency, resulting in improved performance of I/O-intensive applications such as Microsoft SQL OLTP. Similarly, it has flexible configuration that enables customers to scale linearly as their workloads require by incrementally adding high-density, storage-heavy or compute-heavy node configurations.
