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VCE Unveils Vxrack: Industry’s First Hyper-Converged Rackscale System Delivers Massive Scale Out Infrastructrure With Simplicity
May 2015 by Marc Jacob
VCE announced a new family of hyper-converged RackScale Systems that enables enterprises and Service Providers to dramatically simplify the deployment of next generation scale out mobile, cloud and distributed Tier 2 applications. The VCE® VxRack™ System enables customers to start from dozens of servers and scale to many thousands of servers — tens of petabytes of storage capacity while delivering the highest performance and value per IOP. Most importantly, VCE brings its proven methodology of pre-engineered factory built infrastructure with single call lifecycle support to deliver a massively scaled out hyper-converged VxRack Systems with the same unmatched VCE customer experience.
The VxRack Systems are fully software-defined leveraging EMC ScaleIO software-defined storage and including built-in networking to ensure seamless scaling and in addition it can decouple scaling of compute and storage enabling customers to take full advantage of a hyper-converged architecture without limitations. Another unique attribute of the VxRack Systems is the unparalleled flexibility enabled by a choice of software stacks that define the personality of the system. These software stacks bring together technologies from across the EMC Federation and partners to offer customers the ability to map their VxRack Systems to their application environments. These systems include:
• A VxRack System offering flexible choice of hypervisor, including the industry-leading VMware vSphere, or KVM or bare metal. The system leverages EMC ScaleIO software-defined storage, Cisco top of rack Nexus switching and can optionally incorporate factory integration of the VMware vRealize management and orchestration suite.
• A VxRack System offering tailored for VMware environments, offers a fully integrated VMware stack based on VMware’s EVO:RACK technology and VMware Virtual SAN.
VxRack Systems are architected to connect into the recently announced VCE Vscale™ Architecture, and will be supported by VCE Vision® software to achieve a unified data center architecture that spans multiple locations and geographies, adding another dimension to scale and flexibility offered by VCE.
The VxRack Systems complement VCE’s flagship Vblock® and VxBlock® converged infrastructure platforms which are built on best of breed technologies and are the primary platform for mission critical Tier 1 workloads such as ERP systems and core enterprise applications. EMC’s VSPEX Blue Hyper -Converged appliance offers customers a simple, turn-key experience for departmental applications, ROBO and SME use cases. Together this portfolio of Blocks, Racks and Appliances offers the most comprehensive converged infrastructure portfolio to accelerate and simplify the customer’s journey to the cloud and big data.
As IT organisations standardise on converged infrastructure as the foundation for their next generation data centers, VCE is well positioned with a comprehensive vision and portfolio to help our customers deliver world class cloud and mobile ready IT services to their business.
AVAILABILITY
VxRack Systems offering a flexible choice of hypervisor, including the industry-leading VMware vSphere will be orderable in July and will begin shipping in Q3. Additional details on the VxRack System based on VMware’s EVO:RACK technology and VMware Virtual SAN will be available in Q3 of this year.
