Businesses are demanding the rapid rollout of IT services to help seize new opportunities and gain competitive advantage. However, the time and effort required to evaluate and integrate hardware, virtualization and data services inhibits IT’s ability to meet these requirements. With limited budgets and resources, many IT teams are looking for pre-engineered solutions that are tightly integrated and fully tested.
This has led to the rise of hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. Hyper-convergence combines compute, storage, virtualization, data protection and more in one system that is easy to deploy and manage. Organizations can leverage best-of-breed products from industry-leading vendors with a single point of support while increasing agility, reducing risk and simplifying their operations.
EMC and VMware have taken the concept further with the new VCE VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure appliances. The VxRail Appliances extend the benefits of VCE converged infrastructure solutions to small to midsize businesses (SMBs) and departments and regional offices of larger enterprises. Organizations 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.
The VxRail Appliance family brings together rich data services and leading systems management capabilities with VMware vSphere, vCenter Server and Virtual SAN software-defined storage. With all-flash or hybrid storage, VxRail Appliances simplify VMware environments and deliver key performance and capacity advantages in a turnkey yet scalable appliance.
VxRail Appliances are also fully loaded with EMC data replication, backup, data reduction and cloud tiering technologies. EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines provides per-VM replication and automated disaster recovery for critical workloads. vSphere Data Protection provides backup and recovery using existing tools, and can optionally back up to EMC Data Domain for centralized storage and management. vSphere and Virtual SAN increase efficiency with data reduction technologies — deduplication, compression and erasure coding. EMC cloud tiering seamlessly extends the appliances to more than 20 public clouds to securely expand storage capacity.
Customers get a familiar management experience through VMware vCenter Server. In addition, VCE VxRail Manager uses VMware Log Insight to capture events and provide deep hardware awareness and up-to-the-minute notifications about the state of applications and VMs. VCE Vision Intelligent Operations software includes VxRail appliances in a complete view of all VCE resources from the core data center to remote and distributed locations.
VxRail Appliances also seamlessly integrate with the broader vSphere ecosystem, fully supporting existing management, automation, monitoring and availability tools from VMware to dramatically simplify IT operations while reducing costs. Additionally, VxRail Appliances integrate with VMware’s cloud management platform and end-user computing solutions, including vRealize Operations and Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode.
EMC and VMware simplify the infrastructure lifecycle by eliminating constant evaluation and testing. Advancements in x86 technologies and vSphere and Virtual SAN are continuously integrated to create an automated, dynamic infrastructure that adapts to business demands.
Increasingly, organizations are using hyper-converged infrastructure as the foundation for their next-generation data centers, and EMC is extending its technology to SMBs and the enterprise edge. Let Technologent show you how the new VxRail Appliances can help you deliver world-class IT services to your business.
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