· A jointly-engineered, turnkey VCE Appliance Family for use cases including small/midsize data centres, enterprise departmental and edge environments
· Incorporates software from EMC/VCE and VMware including VMware’s hyperconverged software
· List pricing starts at US$60,000
· Integrates with existing VMware ecosystem management solutions
· Integrated VCE VxRail Manager for deep element management and monitoring
· EMC cloud tiering to public clouds, such as Virtustream, VMware vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
EMC and VMware have announced the VCE VxRail Appliance family, which they say is the only integrated and jointly engineered hyperconverged infrastructure appliances (HCIA) for VMware environments. The VxRail Appliance family brings together the best of EMC and VMware including EMC rich data services and systems management capabilities with VMware’s leading hyperconverged software that includes VMware vSphere, vCenter Server and VMware Virtual SAN, the simple software-defined storage natively integrated with vSphere. Hybrid storage or all-flash VxRail Appliances deliver performance and capacity advantages in a HCIA.
EMC and VMware simplify the infrastructure lifecycle by eliminating constant evaluation cycles and testing with continuous integration of advancements in x86 technologies and implementation of the latest enhancements to VMware vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN, delivering efficiency with data reduction technologies - deduplication, compression and erasure coding. The net result: IT organisations can focus more on innovation by creating an automated, dynamic infrastructure that adapts to their business demands.
Customers get a familiar experience with management through VMware vCenter Server. VxRail Appliances also seamlessly integrate with the broader VMware vSphere ecosystem, fully supporting existing management, automation, monitoring, and availability tools from VMware to simplify IT operations, while enabling lower costs. Additionally VxRail Appliances integrate with VMware’s cloud management platform and end-user computing solutions, including VMware vRealize Operations and VMware Horizon Air.
“The new VCE VxRail Appliance family puts IT organisations on a path to eliminating complexity and collapsing cost structures with hyperconverged infrastructure while leveraging their existing VMware investments. The VxRail Appliance completes our broad portfolio of Vblock, VxBlock and VxRack Systems to provide customers with a converged infrastructure that meets nearly every workload from the edge to the core regardless of size,” said Chad Sakac, President, VCE, the Converged Platforms Division of EMC.
“With the new VCE VxRail Appliances, powered by VMware hyperconverged software, IT organisations are empowered with a solution that is easy to use and can help them drive innovation as rapid as the business demands. Together, EMC and VMware have worked closely to enable our mutual customers to realise the value of a tightly integrated, hyperconverged solution,” said Yanbing Li, SVP and GM, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware.
The new hyperconverged VCE VxRail Appliances extend the benefits of VCE converged infrastructure - increased agility, simplified operations and lower risk – to small businesses, medium-sized enterprises, and department or regional offices for virtualisation and end-user computing.
The jointly-engineered VCE VxRail Appliances tightly integrate virtualisation, compute, storage and data protection in one system with a single point of support. Organisations can start small, with a couple of virtual machines (VMs), and easily and non-disruptively scale to thousands of VMs with a predictable, “pay-as-you-grow” approach. VxRail Appliances are available in a broad set of configurations and scale points:
- Entry systems for small and medium businesses and remote offices start at a list price of US$60,000 and options for performance intensive workloads have more than 76 TB of flash – over 2X more flash than any other hyperconverged appliance.
- VxRail Appliances are loaded with EMC mission-critical data services including replication, backup and cloud tiering at no additional charge.
- EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (VMs) provides per-VM replication and automated disaster recovery for critical workloads. Virtual SAN active-active stretch clusters provide site level, zero data loss protection.
- Integrated vSphere Data Protection provides backup and recovery using existing tools and can optionally back up to EMC Data Domain for centralised storage and management.
- VCE VxRail Manager provides deep hardware awareness with up-to-the-minute holistic notifications about the state of applications, VMs, and appliance leveraging VMware Log Insight capturing events.
- VxRail Appliances leverage EMC cloud tiering to seamlessly extend to more than 20 public clouds such as VMware vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and very shortly Virtustream, to more securely expand storage capacity without limits, providing an additional 10TB of on-demand cloud storage per appliance.
“I can already appreciate the cost and time-saving benefits we could gain by deploying a condensed, self-contained, standard 2U hyperconverged rack using best of breed storage and compute technology. For trackside, the savings in freight charges alone would be approximately US$200,000 per season, and the simplified setup of the VxRail means we could be up and running much quicker at every race, offering a significantly improved user experience,” said Antony Smith, IS Infrastructure Manager, Renault Sport Formula One Team.
“Software-defined models are changing the operating economics of the data center. VxRail will enable our customers to simplify IT operations and lower associated costs, while at the same time offering more flexibility to serve their rapidly changing business needs. As an all-in-one solution backed by a federation of industry leaders in software-defined converged infrastructure, our customers will appreciate the proven technology of EMC coupled with VMware software innovation and support from a leader in integrated infrastructure, VCE,” said Bob Olwig, Vice President of Business Strategy and Innovation, World Wide Technology, a systems integrator which has a direct presence in China, Japan and Singapore.
"According to ESG’s research on hybrid cloud trends, 70% of IT respondents plan to invest in HCI over the next 24 months. Moreover, 85% of these same respondents indicated that they plan on leveraging their existing investments in private cloud software, like VMware vCenter Server and vCloud Director framework technology, to serve as the foundation for their hybrid cloud environment. As such, the new VMware and VCE VxRail Appliance could make for a very compelling offering to for those looking to implement a highly flexible and highly scalable hyperconverged infrastructure appliance, with private and hybrid cloud computing capabilities, while still leveraging the same VMware management tools that they have been using for years,” said Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.
Interested?
VxRail Appliances are sold by EMC, VCE and their channel partners, and can be ordered today. All-flash VxRail Appliances with modern data reduction capabilities will be available in Q216.
Check out the ESG video
· Incorporates software from EMC/VCE and VMware including VMware’s hyperconverged software
· List pricing starts at US$60,000
· Integrates with existing VMware ecosystem management solutions
· Integrated VCE VxRail Manager for deep element management and monitoring
· EMC cloud tiering to public clouds, such as Virtustream, VMware vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
EMC and VMware have announced the VCE VxRail Appliance family, which they say is the only integrated and jointly engineered hyperconverged infrastructure appliances (HCIA) for VMware environments. The VxRail Appliance family brings together the best of EMC and VMware including EMC rich data services and systems management capabilities with VMware’s leading hyperconverged software that includes VMware vSphere, vCenter Server and VMware Virtual SAN, the simple software-defined storage natively integrated with vSphere. Hybrid storage or all-flash VxRail Appliances deliver performance and capacity advantages in a HCIA.
EMC and VMware simplify the infrastructure lifecycle by eliminating constant evaluation cycles and testing with continuous integration of advancements in x86 technologies and implementation of the latest enhancements to VMware vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN, delivering efficiency with data reduction technologies - deduplication, compression and erasure coding. The net result: IT organisations can focus more on innovation by creating an automated, dynamic infrastructure that adapts to their business demands.
Customers get a familiar experience with management through VMware vCenter Server. VxRail Appliances also seamlessly integrate with the broader VMware vSphere ecosystem, fully supporting existing management, automation, monitoring, and availability tools from VMware to simplify IT operations, while enabling lower costs. Additionally VxRail Appliances integrate with VMware’s cloud management platform and end-user computing solutions, including VMware vRealize Operations and VMware Horizon Air.
“The new VCE VxRail Appliance family puts IT organisations on a path to eliminating complexity and collapsing cost structures with hyperconverged infrastructure while leveraging their existing VMware investments. The VxRail Appliance completes our broad portfolio of Vblock, VxBlock and VxRack Systems to provide customers with a converged infrastructure that meets nearly every workload from the edge to the core regardless of size,” said Chad Sakac, President, VCE, the Converged Platforms Division of EMC.
“With the new VCE VxRail Appliances, powered by VMware hyperconverged software, IT organisations are empowered with a solution that is easy to use and can help them drive innovation as rapid as the business demands. Together, EMC and VMware have worked closely to enable our mutual customers to realise the value of a tightly integrated, hyperconverged solution,” said Yanbing Li, SVP and GM, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware.
The new hyperconverged VCE VxRail Appliances extend the benefits of VCE converged infrastructure - increased agility, simplified operations and lower risk – to small businesses, medium-sized enterprises, and department or regional offices for virtualisation and end-user computing.
The jointly-engineered VCE VxRail Appliances tightly integrate virtualisation, compute, storage and data protection in one system with a single point of support. Organisations can start small, with a couple of virtual machines (VMs), and easily and non-disruptively scale to thousands of VMs with a predictable, “pay-as-you-grow” approach. VxRail Appliances are available in a broad set of configurations and scale points:
- Entry systems for small and medium businesses and remote offices start at a list price of US$60,000 and options for performance intensive workloads have more than 76 TB of flash – over 2X more flash than any other hyperconverged appliance.
- VxRail Appliances are loaded with EMC mission-critical data services including replication, backup and cloud tiering at no additional charge.
- EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (VMs) provides per-VM replication and automated disaster recovery for critical workloads. Virtual SAN active-active stretch clusters provide site level, zero data loss protection.
- Integrated vSphere Data Protection provides backup and recovery using existing tools and can optionally back up to EMC Data Domain for centralised storage and management.
- VCE VxRail Manager provides deep hardware awareness with up-to-the-minute holistic notifications about the state of applications, VMs, and appliance leveraging VMware Log Insight capturing events.
- VxRail Appliances leverage EMC cloud tiering to seamlessly extend to more than 20 public clouds such as VMware vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and very shortly Virtustream, to more securely expand storage capacity without limits, providing an additional 10TB of on-demand cloud storage per appliance.
“I can already appreciate the cost and time-saving benefits we could gain by deploying a condensed, self-contained, standard 2U hyperconverged rack using best of breed storage and compute technology. For trackside, the savings in freight charges alone would be approximately US$200,000 per season, and the simplified setup of the VxRail means we could be up and running much quicker at every race, offering a significantly improved user experience,” said Antony Smith, IS Infrastructure Manager, Renault Sport Formula One Team.
“Software-defined models are changing the operating economics of the data center. VxRail will enable our customers to simplify IT operations and lower associated costs, while at the same time offering more flexibility to serve their rapidly changing business needs. As an all-in-one solution backed by a federation of industry leaders in software-defined converged infrastructure, our customers will appreciate the proven technology of EMC coupled with VMware software innovation and support from a leader in integrated infrastructure, VCE,” said Bob Olwig, Vice President of Business Strategy and Innovation, World Wide Technology, a systems integrator which has a direct presence in China, Japan and Singapore.
"According to ESG’s research on hybrid cloud trends, 70% of IT respondents plan to invest in HCI over the next 24 months. Moreover, 85% of these same respondents indicated that they plan on leveraging their existing investments in private cloud software, like VMware vCenter Server and vCloud Director framework technology, to serve as the foundation for their hybrid cloud environment. As such, the new VMware and VCE VxRail Appliance could make for a very compelling offering to for those looking to implement a highly flexible and highly scalable hyperconverged infrastructure appliance, with private and hybrid cloud computing capabilities, while still leveraging the same VMware management tools that they have been using for years,” said Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.
Interested?
VxRail Appliances are sold by EMC, VCE and their channel partners, and can be ordered today. All-flash VxRail Appliances with modern data reduction capabilities will be available in Q216.
Check out the ESG video
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