SOLUTION BRIEF

SIMPLIFYING THE DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE WITH VCE VXRAIL APPLIANCES Distributed Enterprises usually have a central IT staff that creates the overall business network architecture for the enterprise, and many remote offices that are essential to running the business, normally with no on-site technical staff. However, the infrastructure and data at these distributed locations is mission critical. Important activities in distributed enterprises are warehousing and distribution facilities, manufacturing sites producing the company's core products, mobile or remote life-saving environments like health clinics. While not on site, support responsibilities for these offices usually continue to fall to the central IT staff. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in their 2015 research report Remote Office/Branch Office Technology Trends, 72% of organizations intend to increase spending on remote office IT infrastructure in order to address those key issues.

In addition to the above concerns, footprint becomes an issue as the remote locations are not set up like a with dedicated space, power, and cooling for multiple servers running multiple applications. This means they are much more sensitive to server sprawl. While some organizations may look to the cloud to reduce server sprawl and centralize operations, in many cases that is not feasible. This is because offices either are in remote locations with limited Internet service or have minimal WAN bandwidth and redundancy available, so issues such as latency and availability could become limiting factors.

VCE VxRail™ Appliances are ideal for consolidating multiple applications in a remote location onto a single, high-performance, and high-availability platform that is easy to deploy and manage.

CREATE IT CERTAINTY IN THE DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE WITH VXRAIL APPLIANCES Designed exclusively by Dell EMC and VMware, VCE VxRail Appliances integrate compute, storage, , and management software from Dell EMC and VMware. They are the optimal endpoint hyper-converged infrastructure appliances (HCIA) for the distributed enterprise. As an integral solution in the VCE converged infrastructure portfolio, VxRail Appliances can be managed with VMware Management and Orchestration tools or VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations, enabling IT to manage the distributed solution from the same management console as they manage their data center infrastructure.

The VxRail Appliance enables customers to consolidate multiple remote office applications onto a single appliance. VxRail is the only HCI appliance that offers kernel layer integration between VMware Virtual SAN and the vSphere hypervisor, delivering unique performance advantages and operational efficiency by eliminating many data path bottlenecks. Simple deployment enables customers to be up and running in 15 minutes; all other configuration can be done remotely.

Available all-flash models accelerate performance and feature enterprise data efficiency services, including deduplication, compression, and erasure coding, which increase effective capacity.

In addition, the VxRail Appliance is the only HCI appliance on the market offering Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that eliminates “noisy neighbors.” This functionality creates certainty that multiple applications can be hosted on the same appliance or in the same cluster without worrying about performance impacts.

PREDICTABLY EVOLVE AND CONTINUOUSLY MODERNIZE YOUR REMOTE INFRASTRUCTURE VxRail Appliances feature industry-leading data protection software from VMware and Dell EMC along with full redundancy built-in. Enterprise class resiliency and availability is assured so users can be certain of application uptime. Backups can be run locally at the remote office or over the WAN to core data centers for central management.

VxRail Appliances provides maximum configuration flexibility, allowing customers to tailor the size of the appliance to each remote office. Single node scaling, storage capacity expansion delivers linear, pay-as-you-grow scalability to match business and user demand, and vSphere license independence further enhances flexibility. This granular, linear, non-disruptive scaling allows customers to start as small with as few as 40 VMs or up to 200 VMs or 550 VDTs in a single appliance, for a maximum deployment of 3200 VMs or more than 9,500 VDTs in a fully populated VxRail cluster.

VXRAIL APPLIANCES ADVANTAGES FOR DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE • All-flash or hybrid appliances allow you to tailor compute and capacity deployment for each remote location

• Simple, automated set-up reduces IT staff burden

• VMware vSphere license flexibility enable you to determine the level of functionality you want in the hypervisor while saving money

• Application uptime, automation, and policy management ensured through high availability VMware Virtual SAN and other off-the-shelf VMware software

• Linear and granular scalability from as few as 10 to up to 200 virtual machines per appliance. Single node scaling up to 64 nodes enables you to grow at your pace and support business requirements

• One-click, non-disruptive patches and upgrades

• Only HCI appliance offering QoS to confidently run other applications on VDI platform

• Included End to end data protection, featuring RecoverPoint for VMs and VMware Data Protection ensure data is protected locally or back to the central office

• Part of a complete portfolio of converged core and edge solutions

• Management and visibility across the distributed enterprise with VCE Vision software, as well as centralized vCenter Server

AVAILABILITY AND SUPPORT Benefit from availability and reliability features for VxRail Appliances, such as

• 24/7 global support for all hardware and software on the appliance

• Remote “heartbeat” monitoring, diagnostic, and repair with proactive fault detection

• High-availability system design with maximum component redundancy

• Automated operational and disaster-recovery orchestration for VMs, including local and remote hypervisor-based replication and continuous data protection for per-VM recovery to any point in time

• World-class support from Dell EMC’s single-point-of-accountability philosophy

ABOUT DELL EMC Dell EMC is the world market leader in converged infrastructure and converged solutions. Through VCE Converged Infrastructure and Solutions, Dell EMC accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that reduce IT costs while improving time to market. Dell EMC delivers the industry's only fully integrated and virtualized cloud infrastructure systems, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating, and managing IT infrastructure. VCE solutions are available through an extensive partner network. For more information, go to emc.com/ci.

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