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Dell EMC Vxflex Family Overview Transformation Without Trade-Offs Dell EMC VxFlex Family Overview Transformation without trade-offs Abstract This whitepaper provides an overview of the Dell EMC™ VxFlex family, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, that offers “Transformation without Trade-offs,” explaining the compelling performance, resilience and flexibility of VxFlex systems. May 2019 Dell EMC VxFlex Family Overview | H17693 © 2019 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries Revisions Revisions Date Description May 2019 Initial Publication Acknowledgements This paper was produced by the VxFlex product and technical marketing teams and sponsored by Intel®. Content Owner: Donna Brasure The information in this publication is provided “as is.” Dell Inc. makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the information in this publication and specifically disclaims implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Use, copying and distribution of any software described in this publication requires an applicable software license. © 2019 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved. Dell, EMC, Dell EMC and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. Dell believes the information in this document is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. 2|Dell EMC VxFlex Family Overview | H17693 © 2019 Dell Inc. or its susidiaries Table of contents Table of contents Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5 1 Data Center/Business IT challenges ............................................................................................................................ 7 1.1 Storage Area Network (SAN) ............................................................................................................................. 7 1.2 Multiple infrastructure and application silos ........................................................................................................ 7 1.3 Proprietary and costly fiber channel networking requirements .......................................................................... 8 2 Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) ........................................................................................................................... 9 2.1 Key building blocks/technologies that make HCI a reality .................................................................................. 9 2.2 HCI drives IT transformation ............................................................................................................................. 10 2.3 Total business value ......................................................................................................................................... 11 3 VxFlex portfolio – transformation without trade-offs ................................................................................................... 12 3.1 Build-to-buy continuum ..................................................................................................................................... 12 3.2 VxFlex key value propositions .......................................................................................................................... 14 3.2.1 Flexibility ........................................................................................................................................................... 14 3.2.2 Linear scalability and elasticity ......................................................................................................................... 14 3.2.3 Predictable high performance and enterprise-grade resilience ........................................................................ 15 3.3 Power positions ................................................................................................................................................ 15 3.3.1 Multi-hypervisor and bare metal support .......................................................................................................... 15 3.3.2 Server SAN / two-layer architecture ................................................................................................................. 15 3.3.3 High performance for applications and databases ........................................................................................... 15 4 VxFlex OS .................................................................................................................................................................. 18 4.1 Software-defined server SAN ........................................................................................................................... 18 4.2 VxFlex OS building blocks ................................................................................................................................ 18 4.2.1 Storage Data Server (SDS) .............................................................................................................................. 19 4.2.2 Metadata Manager (MDM) ............................................................................................................................... 19 4.3 Design fundamentals ........................................................................................................................................ 19 4.3.1 Massive parallelism .......................................................................................................................................... 19 4.3.2 High performance/ low footprint ........................................................................................................................ 20 4.3.3 Flexible deployment options: ............................................................................................................................ 21 4.3.4 Elastic infrastructure ......................................................................................................................................... 23 4.3.5 Simple migration ............................................................................................................................................... 23 4.4 VxFlex integrated systems and VxFlex OS storage schemes ......................................................................... 24 4.5 VxFlex OS management .................................................................................................................................. 24 3|Dell EMC VxFlex Family Overview | H17693 © 2019 Dell Inc. or its susidiaries Table of contents 4.6 VxFlex OS 3.0 enhancements .......................................................................................................................... 25 4.6.1 Data compression and drastically reduced snapshot overhead ....................................................................... 25 4.6.2 Non-disruptive volume migration ...................................................................................................................... 26 4.6.3 Volume snapshot enhancements ..................................................................................................................... 27 5 VxFlex integrated rack and VxFlex appliance ............................................................................................................ 28 5.1 VxFlex integrated rack ...................................................................................................................................... 28 5.2 VxFlex appliance .............................................................................................................................................. 29 5.3 VxFlex integrated systems turnkey experience ................................................................................................ 30 5.4 VxFlex integrated rack with integrated networking ........................................................................................... 30 5.5 VxFlex appliance “bring your own” networking ................................................................................................. 31 5.6 Scale compute and storage together or separately .......................................................................................... 32 5.7 Use cases for shared infrastructure.................................................................................................................. 33 5.8 VxFlex Manager................................................................................................................................................ 33 5.9 Data protection for VxFlex integrated systems ................................................................................................. 35 5.9.1 Dell EMC Data Protection Suite for Backup ..................................................................................................... 36 6 VxFlex
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