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The standard in hyper-converged infrastructure

Written by Zones | Mar 22, 2017 9:15:54 AM

Dell EMC VxRail appliance

VxRail is the only fully integrated, preconfigured, and tested HCI appliance powered by VMware vSAN, and is the easiest and fastest way to extend a VMware environment. VxRail provides a simple, cost effective hyper-converged solution that solves a wide range of your challenges and supports most applications and workloads. Dell EMC VxRail features purpose-built platforms that deliver data services, resiliency, and QoS, enabling faster, better, and simpler delivery of virtual desktops, business-critical applications, and remote office infrastructure, so IT can focus on more important things:

  • Getting infrastructure operational as quickly as possible while leveraging existing investments and skill sets
  • Enabling (not impeding) business applications
  • Making infrastructure growth transparent to the needs of the application and users

Scalability and performance

Included VMware Data Protection (VDP) protects every application or VM on the VxRail Appliance. Deployed as a virtual appliance with up to 8TB capacity, VDP features familiar vCenter web client management. RecoverPoint for VMs provides simple, efficient, and proven disaster recovery for VMware vSphere, protecting virtual machines at a granular level and ensuring business continuity. Integrated EMC CloudArray seamlessly extends VxRail Appliance to public and private clouds to securely expand storage capacity to the cloud. Available Data Protection Suite for VMware extends included data protection features with the industry’s broadest capabilities including backup and recovery, continuous data protection, monitoring and analysis, and search capabilities.

Usability and management

With a single point of global 24×7 support for both the hardware and software, and backed by ESRS for dial-home secure remote connection for monitoring, diagnosis, and repair, VxRail provides the ultimate appliance support on the market. Ask your Zones account executive to connect you with one of our VxRail experts today.

World class service and support

VxRail Appliance provides existing VMware customers a familiar user experience. VM management through vCenter Server and IT and Cloud automation with vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation let you seamlessly integrate VxRail into your existing data center infrastructure.

Backup and recovery

Based on VMware vSphere and vSAN software, and built with new Intel Broadwell processors, the VxRail Appliance allows you to start small and grow, scaling capacity and performance easily and non-disruptively. All-flash VxRail Appliances include efficient and in-line deduplication, compression, and erasure coding. With these enterprise-class data services VxRail delivers high performance all-flash with increased usable capacity.

Ask a Zones account executive to connect you with one of our VxRail experts today.

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