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Why Dell EMC VxRail™ is a go-to solution to modernise your infrastructure?

Technology is changing at a phenomenal rate and application ecosystems are becoming more complex and intertwined with business operations. IT organisations need to re-examine how they undertake every facet of what they do, how they do it, and how they prioritise their business objectives. Today, an organisation has to strive to deliver greater efficiency, predictability and business agility to ensure they stay ahead of their competition.

Hyper-converged infrastructure is leading the way in IT Transformation. In a 2018 poll 81% of IT executives agreed, that if they do not embrace IT transformation, their firm will no longer be competitive in the market¹.

When standards matter

When it comes to efficiency, agility, and accessibility, IT experts recommend Dell EMC VxRail™ as a better choice. VxRail creates certainty by seamlessly integrating with the familiar VMware ecosystem – leveraging VMware’s industry-leading management, M&O tools and knowledge-base to maximise the investment.

VxRail is the only HCI appliance co-designed and developed with VMware and is engineered, manufactured, managed, supported and sustained as ONE for single end-to-end lifecycle support. This makes the infrastructure simple to maintain and expand, whilst freeing up resources to drive greater business value. Moreover, it is flash-enabled and comes fully loaded with enterprise data services. And yes, it supports a range of out-of-the-box appliances such as VMware vSphere, VMware VSAN, VMware vCenter Server, VxRail Manager, Recoverpoint for Virtual Machines, and can be infinitely configured to provide the compute, connectivity and storage requirements your business demands.

What makes Dell EMC VxRail™ convenient to use?

One click upgrades – VxRail manager deploys a single firmware bundle to upgrade your entire infrastructure. There is no longer a need to patch server, hypervisor, network and storage in isolation.
Start small and scale – VxRail can be deployed from as little as two nodes.
Single end-to-end support No more vendor finger-pointing in case of faults on hardware or software.

VxRail comes in a series of configurations to serve the various needs of organisations.

	G Series	E Series	V Series	P Series	S Series
Chassis	2U4N	1U1N	2U1N	2U1N	2U1N
CPU sockets	Single or dual	Single or dual	Dual	Single or dual	Single or dual
CPU frequency	1.7 Ghz – 3.6 Ghz	1.7 GHz – 3.6 GHz	1.8 GHz – 3.6 GHz	1.7 GHz – 3.6 GHz	1.7 GHz – 3.6 GHz
RAM*	64 GB – 2048 TB	64 GB – 3072 GB	128 GB – 3072 GB	64 GB – 3072 GB	64 GB – 3072 GB
All flash storage	1.92 TB – 19.2 TB SAS or 1.92 TB – 19.2 TB SATA	1.92 TB – 30.7 TB SAS or 1.92 TB – 30.7 TB SATA	1.92 TB – 76.8 TB SAS or 1.92 TB – 76.8 TB SATA	1.92 TB – 76.8 TB SAS or 1.92 TB – 76.8 TB SATA	Hybrid only
Drive bays	6 x 2.5”	10 x 2.5”	24 x 2.5”	24 x 2.5”	12 x 3.5” and 2 x 2.5”

As Dell EMC VxRail™ offers an opportunity for organisations to virtualise, compute, and store all their data in just one appliance, it is no exaggeration to say that it is game-changer in IT.

¹Based on the ESG Research paper, “Research Proves IT Transformation’s Persistent Link to Agility, Innovation, and Business Value,” March 2018.