VXRAIL™

DIEDERIK DE JONGH PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT VXRAIL EMEA

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HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
VIRTUAL VIRTUAL VIRTUAL VIRTUAL VIRTUAL

COMPUTE SIMPLESTORAGE
TO MANAGE
MEMORY NETWORK MANAGEMENT

SOFTWARE DEFINED
+ SCALE OUT
+ +
ARCHITECTURE +

EMC
EMC

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VXRAIL CONFIGURATIONS 2016
VxRail 60 VxRail 120 VxRail 160 VxRail 200

6 Cores Per Node 12 Cores Per Node 16 Cores Per Node 20 Cores Per Node
COMPUTE/
COMPUTE/
PROCESSOR Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 Dual
Dual Intel
Intel Xeon
Xeon E5-2630
E5-2630 v3
v3 Dual
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660
Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3
v3
PROCESSOR
1.6 GHz v3 2.4 GHz 2.4
2.4 GHz
GHz 2.6
2.6 GHz
GHz

MEMORY/ 64GB
64GB 128GB
128GB or
or 192GB
192GB or
or 256GB
256GB 256GB
256GB or
or 512GB
512GB 256GB
256GB or
or 512GB
512GB
MEMORY/
node
Per node

RAM
RAM (4x16GB)
(4x16GB) (8x16GB)
(8x16GB) or
or (12x16GB)
(12x16GB) or
or (16x16GB)
(16x16GB) (16x16GB)
(16x16GB) or
or (16x32GB)
(16x32GB) (16x16GB)
(16x16GB) or
or (16x32GB)
(16x32GB)
Per

STORAGE
STORAGE 3.60–10TB
3.60–10TB 3.6–10TB
3.6–10TB 4.8–10TB
4.8–10TB 4.8–10TB
4.8–10TB
RAW/HDD*
RAW/HDD*

NETWORK
NETWORK 4
4 Port
Port 1G
1G Dual
Dual Port
Port 10G
10G Dual
Dual Port
Port 10G
10G Dual
Dual Port
Port 10G
10G
CONNECTION
CONNECTION RJ45
RJ45 SFP+
SFP+ or
or RJ45
RJ45 SFP+
SFP+ or
or RJ45
RJ45 SFP+
SFP+ or
or RJ45
RJ45

nodes
nodes per
per cluster
cluster
MINIMUM
MINIMUM 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes
MAXIMUM
MAXIMUM 64 Nodes
64 Nodes 64 Nodes
64 Nodes 64 Nodes
64 Nodes 64
64 Nodes
Nodes
INCREMENTS
INCREMENTS 1
1 Node
Node 1
1 Node
Node 1
1 Node
Node 1 Node

*Additional 200GB (VxRail 60) or 400GB-

800GB cache SSD per node also included
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VXRAIL ALL FLASH: Q2 2016
VxRail 120F VxRail 160F VxRail 200F VxRail 240F VxRail 280F

12
12 Cores
Cores Per
Per Node
Node
COMPUTE/
COMPUTE/ Dual Intel Xeon E5- 16 Cores Per Node 20 Cores Per Node 24 Cores Per Node 28 Cores Per Node
Dual
Dual Intel
Intel Xeon
Xeon E5-2630
E5-2630 v3
v3 Dual Intel Xeon
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660
E5-2660 v3
v3 Dual
Dual Intel
Intel Xeon
Xeon E5-2680
E5-2680 v3
v3 Dual
Dual Intel
Intel Xeon
Xeon E5-2683
E5-2683 v3
v3
PROCESSOR
PROCESSOR 2620
2620 v3
v3 2.4
2.4 GHz/20M
GHz/20M Cache
Cache 2.6
2.6 GHz/25M
GHz/25M Cache
Cache 2.5
2.5 GHz
GHz // 30M
30M Cache
Cache 2.00
2.00 GHz/35M
GHz/35M Cache
Cache
2.4
2.4 GHz/15M
GHz/15M Cache
Cache
MEMORY/ 256GB
256GB or
or 512GB
512GB 256GB
256GB or
or 512GB
512GB 256GB
256GB or
or 512GB
512GB 256GB
256GB or
or 512GB
512GB
MEMORY/ 256GB
256GB
node

(16x16GB)
(16x16GB) or (16x16GB)
(16x16GB) or (16x16GB)
(16x16GB) or (16x16GB)
(16x16GB) or
Per node

RAM
RAM (16x16GB) or or or or
(16x16GB) (16x32GB) (16x32GB) (16x32GB) (16x32GB)
Per

STORAGE
STORAGE
RAW/SSD* 7.6–19TB
7.6–19TB 7.6–19TB
7.6–19TB 7.6–19TB
7.6–19TB 7.6–19TB
7.6–19TB 7.6–19TB
7.6–19TB
RAW/SSD*

NETWORK
NETWORK Dual Port 10G Dual Port 10G Dual Port 10G Dual Port 10G Dual Port 10G
CONNECTION
CONNECTION SFP+
SFP+ or
or RJ45
RJ45 SFP+
SFP+ or
or RJ45
RJ45 SFP+
SFP+ or
or RJ45
RJ45 SFP+
SFP+ or
or RJ45
RJ45 SFP+
SFP+ or
or RJ45
RJ45

nodes
nodes per
per cluster
cluster
MINIMUM
MINIMUM 4 Nodes 4 Nodes 4 Nodes 4 Nodes 4 Nodes
MAXIMUM
MAXIMUM 64 Nodes
64 Nodes 64 Nodes
64 Nodes 64 Nodes
64 Nodes 64 Nodes
64 Nodes 64 Nodes
64 Nodes
INCREMENTS
INCREMENTS 1
1 Node
Node 1
1 Node
Node 1
1 Node
Node 1
1 Node
Node 1
1 Node
Node

*Additional 400GB-800GB cache SSD per

node also included
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KEY VXRAIL DATES
ANNOUNCING EVERYTHING AND DELIVERING IN 2 PHASES

Feb 2 VxRail Available in SFDC

ANNOUNCEMENT
& Q1 ORDERABILITY Feb 16
HYBRD CONFIGS

Mar 10 FCSP • SAV/GA

HYBRD CONFIGS (NO VXRAIL 60)

Q2 ORDERABILITY May 20
ALL FLASH CONFIGS

June 24 FCSP • SAV/GA

ALL FLASH CONFIGS, VXRAIL 60

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TECHNICAL PRODUCT OVERVIEW

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PURPOSE BUILT VMWARE SOLUTION
DESIGNED
DESIGNED AS
AS ONE
ONE WITH
WITH EMC|VCE
EMC|VCE AND
AND VMWARE
VMWARE HYPER-CONVERGED
HYPER-CONVERGED SOFTWARE
SOFTWARE

STORAGE
IN FRONT

SOFTWARE
INSIDE

COMPUTE
IN BACK

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STANDARDS MATTER – GETTING TO HCIA RESULTS

DO IT STANDALONE PLUG-IN
YOURSELF APPLIANCE APPLIANCE

SOFTWARE + CUSTOMER VALIDATED HARDWARE OPTIMIZED HARDWARE

SUPPLIED HARDWARE & SOFTWARE & SOFTWARE

CUSTOMER INTEGRATED PRE-INTEGRATED DESIGNED AS ONE

COMPONENTS MANAGED PROPRIETARY EXISTING MANAGEMENT

SEPARATELY MANAGEMENT TOOLS

NO STANDARDS MULTIPLE PLUG-IN TO EXISTING

STANDARDS STANDARDS

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VCE VXRAIL HYPER-CONVERGED APPLIANCE
EXCLUSIVE
EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP
PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN
BETWEEN EMC
EMC &
& VMWARE
VMWARE

VIRTUAL DESKTOPS SERVER WORKLOADS HYBRID CLOUD DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE

Deploy hundreds of desktops Standardize & consolidate Seamless backup & replication Manage & orchestrate across locations
in minutes on one appliance infrastructure for all to the cloud with no downtime
remote/departmental workloads

MULTIPLE CONFIGS NON-DISRUPTIVE DATA SERVICES INTEGRATED

& SCALE POINTS SDDC SCALE OUT FOR EFFICIENCY REPLICATION

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SOFTWARE FEATURE DETAILS

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2 KEY ARCHITECTURAL ADVANTAGES
• VSAN is integrated into Kernel of vSphere
– More efficient and performant than USER VMs
a Virtual Storage Appliance VM VM
VM VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM

• Storage Policy Based Management

– Storage policies are directly embedded HYPERVISOR with vSAN

onto storage object

– Data protection, Performance/QoS,
Data Reduction STORAGE MEDIA
– Policies follow your virtual machine
NATIVELY INTEGRATED
– Seamlessly integrated with vRealize

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VMware Virtual SAN
Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage for VMs

VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
VM Overview
Overview
• Software-defined storage optimized for
vSphere + Virtual SAN VMs
… • Hypervisor-converged architecture
• Runs on any standard x86 server
• Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore
• Delivers enterprise-level scalability and
performance
• Managed through per-VM storage policies
• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack
Virtual SAN Datastore

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Ready For All vSphere Workloads

Best storage for VMs

Business End User
Critical Apps Compute
DR / DA Test/Dev

Optimized for vSphere

DMZ Management Staging ROBO

Enterprise-class resiliency

VMware vSphere + Virtual SAN

Business critical app ready
Tiered All-Flash and Hybrid Options
All-Flash Hybrid

Caching
SSD SSD

Writes cached first, Read and Write Cache

Reads from capacity tier

Data
Virtual SAN Persistence
Capacity Tier
Flash Devices Capacity Tier
Reads primarily from capacity tier SAS / NL-SAS / SATA

90K IOPS per Host

+ 40K IOPS per Host
sub-millisecond latency
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 in
w
e
N 6.2Performance, Scale and Availability for Any Application

BUSINESS-CRITICAL
A P P L I C AT I O N S

SAP Horizon Oracle

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 in
ew
N 6.2

Performance, Scale and Availability for Any Application

BUSINESS-CRITICAL
A P P L I C AT I O N S
SAP Horizon Oracle

SAP Core Ready Tightly integrated cloud Oracle RAC supported

Testing and validated
deployments
management
Testing and validated deployments
Bundles Virtual SAN
licenses for lowest
cost VDI storage

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4-NODE APPLIANCE

NODE 3 NODE 4 NODE 1 NODE 2

REAR
NODE
ACCESS

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CONFIGURATIONS TO MATCH ANY USE CASE
BLEND PERFORMANCE
MAX PERFORMANCE AND SCALE AND COST LOW COST ENTRY
APPS THAT DEMAND LOW LATENCY CONFIGURATIONS

SSD ALL FLASH NODES SSD SSD HYBRID NODES

12 16 20 24 28 Cores 6 12 16 20

256GB 512GB Memory 64GB 128GB 192GB 256GB 512GB

7.6TB 11.4TB 15.2TB 19TB Storage 3.6TB 4.8TB 6TB 8TB 10TB

RJ45 SFP+ Network RJ45 SFP+

Nodes are homogenous within an appliance, Nodes are homogenous within an appliance,
appliances can be mixed in a cluster appliances can be mixed in a cluster

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MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY OTHER HCIA

112 CPU CORES

76 TB RAW FLASH

FLASH OPTIMIZED
- DEDUPE & COMPRESSION
- ERASURE CODING

2 RACK UNITS

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 3,200VMs
START SMALL – SCALE ON DEMAND

1,600VMs

800VMs

400VMs
200VMs

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DATA PROTECTION

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EFFICIENT SNAPSHOTS AND CLONES
• New redirect-on-write
VM reads

VM writes here
0 this snapshot

disk-
disk-
Disk-003-flat.vmdk (logical) • Utilizing “VSAN FS” (Virsto)
003.vmdk
003.vmdk sparse format
– Same on-disk format for delta disks
Disk-003-flat.vmdk (logical)
– In-memory cache of written extents
Disk-
Disk-
002.vmdk
002.vmdk – GWE of hierarchy upon cache miss

Disk-
Disk-
Disk-003-flat.vmdk (logical) • Minimal performance
001.vmdk
001.vmdk
degradation
Disk-003-flat.vmdk (logical
Disk.vmdk
• Greater snapshot depth (up to
Disk.vmdk
32 snapshots per object)

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INTEGRATED BACKUP AND RECOVERY (VDP)
OVERVIEW
• Integrated backup and restore
capability managed within vCenter
• Encrypted and compressed replications
for offsite backup
• VM, Application and File Level Restore

BENEFITS
• Backup and recovery of VM’s is point
and click using existing tools
• Seamlessly move backups offsite
for retention
• Application aware
• Easily restore VMs or even individual
files

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INTEGRATED REPLICATION (VSR)

OVERVIEW
• Data protection and disaster recovery within the same site
and across sites
• Data center migration
• Replication engine for VMware Site Recovery Manager Air™
and VMware vCloud Air™ Disaster Recovery
• Replication engine for VMware Site Recovery Manager

BENEFITS
• Integration with vSphere Web Client eases administration
and monitoring
• Protect nearly any virtual machine regardless of operating
system (OS) and applications.
• Only changes are replicated, which improves efficiency
and reduces network utilization.
• Recovery point objective (RPO) configurable from 5 minutes
to 24 hours on a per-virtual machine basis

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ADVANCED REPLICATION WITH RPVM

OVERVIEW
• Continuous data protection technology (DVR for your data)
• Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication
• Consistency Groups
• Fully integrated with VMware VSAN Storage Policy Based
Management
• Automated Disaster Recovery Orchestration

BENEFITS
• Rewind data to any point in time seamlessly
• Manage dependencies across multiple virtual machines in a
consistency group
• Advanced topologies (fan in, fan out, replicate to the cloud)
• Eliminate manual DR steps

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FAULT DOMAINS
OVERVIEW
• Intelligent grouping of hosts across
location (racks/rooms)
• Ensure that data replicas are stored in
different fault domains

BENEFITS
• Data integrity is maintained even in the
event of the failure of a rack or room
• A copy of the data is always stored in a
different fault domain

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 Q2
ACTIVE-ACTIVE STRETCHED CLUSTERS

witness
OVERVIEW
100Mbps
200ms RTT • Site level protection with zero data loss and near
L3 instantaneous recovery

• Automated failover in case of site failures

• Witness VM resides in the cloud

– 3rd data center, vCloud Air or COLO
– Contains only metadata and runs no VMs

BENEFITS
5ms • Disaster avoidance
VMware vSphere & Virtual SAN
• Planned maintenance
5ms RTT, 10GbE
• Zero RPO

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 Q2
STORAGE EFFICIENCY
COST SAVINGS THROUGH DE-DUPLICATION AND COMPRESSION

OVERVIEW
ABC ABCD ABCDE • Inline compression & de-dupe to provide average
VM1 VM 2 VM 3 storage saving ratio of ~50% and more
Inline
Inline De-dupe
De-dupe • Enable/disable per cluster
• De-dupe is applied on a per disk group basis
• Data gets de-duped first and then compressed
vSphere + Virtual SAN
• All-flash only
…
ABCDE BENEFITS
• Better cost of ownership through de-dupe and
SSD
compression (greater effective capacity for lower
SSD SSD

$/GB)
• Operational efficiency of managing less storage

Virtual SAN Datastore

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 Q2
ERASURE CODING
PROVIDE STORAGE EFFICIENCY FOR FTT=1 AND FTT=2

OVERVIEW
• Single Parity Protection (RAID5-like) And Double Parity
Virtual SAN Protection (RAID6-like). Single parity Can Tolerate 1
Datastore Failure And Dual Parity Can Tolerate 2 Failures
• Single Parity Will Be 3+1 & Requires Minimum Of 4 Nodes
• Dual Parity Will Be 4+2 & Requires Minimum Of 6 Nodes
• Dynamically Change The Config To Other Parity Levels
Through SPBM
• Parity Is Distributed Across Nodes
• All-flash Only
SSD SSD SSD SSD

BENEFITS
• >30% Storage Saving For FTT=1 (RAID1 vs RAID5)
• >50% Storage Saving For FTT=2
VSAN network

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DATA SERVICES: TIERED CLOUD STORAGE

OVERVIEW
• Presents an ISCSI, CIFS or NFS target to
virtual machines
• Data is encrypted and tiered to cloud storage
• Bandwidth optimization tools
• Tier to any object storage service
Synaptic

BENEFITS
• Take advantage of limitless cloud storage
Virtually Limitless Cloud Storage
• Protect data and retain control of keys
• Share data across locations

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 Q2
QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS)
SPBM VISIBILITY AND MANAGEMENT OF IOPS CONSUMPTION BY VM/VMDKS

OVERVIEW
• QOS per VM/VMDK so that different sets of service
could be provided to applications

• Amount of IOPS will be calculated based on all of the

IOPS operations on this VM/VMDK (read & write) including
its snapshots
vSphere + Virtual SAN
• QOS changed dynamically through SPBM
…
• QoS Guarantees (2017)

SSD HDD SSD HDD SSD HDD

BENEFITS
• Provide SLA s for different workloads & protect tier-1
applications for performance

Virtual SAN Datastore • Address the noisy neighbor issue

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 Q2
ISCSI SUPPORT
SUPPORT NON-VIRTUALIZED WORKLOADS THROUGH ISCSI

OVERVIEW
iSCSI Initiator iSCSI Initiator • Add support for iSCSI in VSAN so that non-virtualized
workloads can utilize VSAN for storage
• Export VMDKs as storage (LUN) for iSCSI targets
Network managed through SPBM
iSCSI • Provides ~1K LUNs on a cluster with a max of 1024
Target targets per cluster and max of 256 LUNs per target
• Max LUN size 62TB
• Core VSAN capability is preserved including dedupe,
encryption etc.

BENEFITS
Virtual SAN Datastore • Storage for physical workloads
• Support for MSCS with shared storage
• Support for third-party hypervisors

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 Q2
DATA AT REST ENCRYPTION IN SOFTWARE
PROTECTING SENSITIVE DATA

OVERVIEW
• End to end software encryption for data at rest

vSphere + Virtual SAN • Integration with major central key management

technologies like SafeNet that are KMIP compliant
… • Configured and enabled per cluster
• FIPS 140-2 Level 1 compliant: AES 256

SSD SSD
• Works with Dedupe/compression and other data
SSD
services
– Checksum -> Dedupe -> Compress -> Encrypt

BENEFITS
• Enterprise class security
Virtual SAN Datastore • Protection against security threats from unauthorized
electronic or physical access to drives
• Safely transport dries to other locations

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VDS AND NSX FOR NETWORK
VIRTUALIZATION
OVERVIEW
• HCIA default deployment uses vSphere
Distributed Switch
• Provides core elements for vSphere Network I/O
Control (NIOC)
• Maintains network runtime state for VMs as they
move across hosts
• Enables inline monitoring and centralized firewall
services
• Ready for NSX integration

BENEFITS
• Workload isolation
• Multi-tenant workloads
• Advanced network services

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 Q2, ‘16
2 NODE ROBO CLUSTER

OVERVIEW
• 2 Node solution in addition to the 3 node
1.5Mbps vSphere &
500ms RTT VSAN • One witness VM per VSAN cluster (N ROBO’s
L3
require N Witness VMs)
witness • Reduced bandwidth and latency requirements
between central and remote
witness

vSphere &
VSAN
BENEFITS
witness
• Cost effective for small remote offices
• All sites could be managed centrally by one
vSphere
vSphere &
& Virtual
Virtual SAN
SAN vCenter including patching and upgrade

vSphere &
VSAN

Managed centrally by one vCenter

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VCE VISION ON VXRAIL
HEALTH & LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Q1
2016
Workload & System
Recognition
• Remotely collect and report the
hardware and software
configuration of VxRail

2H
2016
Workload & System Health
• Status alerts and health
statistics for availability,
performance, and capacity

Stabilization & Optimization

• RCM configuration compliance
states

Security & Compliance

Multisystem Management View

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NO MORE FORKLIFT MIGRATIONS
EVERGREEN CLUSTERS SIMPLIFY TECH REFRESH

10GbE

VM

ADD NEW APPLIANCE TO CLUSTER

VMOTION WORKLOAD TO NEW APPLIANCE
REMOVE OLD APPLIANCE
NON-DISRUPTIVELY

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VXRAIL PRELIM SIZING: Q1 2016
VxRail 60 VxRail 120 VxRail 160 VxRail 200

12 Cores
6 Cores 16 Cores 20 Cores
COMPUTE/
COMPUTE/ Single
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620
Single Intel
Intel Xeon
Xeon E5-2603
E5-2603 v3
v3 Dual
Dual Intel Xeon
Intel Xeon E5-2630
E5-2630 v3
v3 Dual
Dual Intel Xeon
Intel Xeon E5-2660
E5-2660 v3
v3
PROCESSOR
PROCESSOR v3
1.6 GHz 2.4 GHz
2.4 GHz
2.4 GHz 2.6 GHz
2.6 GHz
node
Per node

MEMORY/
MEMORY/ 64GB 192GB 512GB 512GB
RAM
RAM
Per

(8x8GB)
(8x8GB) (12x16GB)
(12x16GB) (16x32GB)
(16x32GB) (16x32GB)
(16x32GB)

STORAGE
STORAGE 6TB
6TB 6TB
6TB 6TB
6TB 6TB
6TB
RAW/HDD
RAW/HDD

#
# of
of VMs
VMs
(per 40 85 115 140
(per appliance)
appliance)

nodes
nodes per
per cluster
cluster
MINIMUM
MINIMUM
MAXIMUM
MAXIMUM 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes
INCREMENTS

Assumes a VM is (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 60GB VMDK, 4vCPU/core)

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VXRAIL PRELIM SIZING: Q1 2016
VxRail 60 VxRail 120 VxRail 160 VxRail 200

12 Cores
6 Cores 16 Cores 20 Cores
COMPUTE/
COMPUTE/ Single
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620
Single Intel
Intel Xeon
Xeon E5-2603
E5-2603 v3
v3 Dual
Dual Intel Xeon
Intel Xeon E5-2630
E5-2630 v3
v3 Dual
Dual Intel Xeon
Intel Xeon E5-2660
E5-2660 v3
v3
PROCESSOR
PROCESSOR v3
1.6 GHz 2.4 GHz
2.4 GHz
2.4 GHz 2.6 GHz
2.6 GHz
node
Per node

MEMORY/
MEMORY/ 64GB 192GB 512GB 512GB
RAM
RAM
Per

(8x8GB)
(8x8GB) (12x16GB)
(12x16GB) (16x32GB)
(16x32GB) (16x32GB)
(16x32GB)

STORAGE
STORAGE 6TB
6TB 6TB
6TB 6TB
6TB 6TB
6TB
RAW/HDD
RAW/HDD

#
# of
of VDI
VDI
(per 115 259 345 432
(per appliance)
appliance)

nodes
nodes per
per cluster
cluster
MINIMUM
MINIMUM
MAXIMUM
MAXIMUM 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes 4
4 Nodes
Nodes
INCREMENTS

Assumes a VDI is: (Task-based Worker: linked-clone 24GB OS master, 5GB user data, 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 6vCPU/core)
Assumes Horizon View and Active Directory deployed external to VxRail cluster

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VXRAIL SCALE OUT AND CLUSTERING

• Four node minimum configuration

– Nodes within an appliance must be of the same type
and capacity
•Cluster up to 16 appliances
– More than 32 nodes requires and RPQ

•Mix models within a cluster

– Except doing so would create highly unbalanced performance
– No mixing all Flash and Hybrid nodes
– No mixing 1GbE and 10GbE Nodes
– VSPEX BLUE appliances can be added with software upgrade

•Single node upgrades (Q2)

*Starting in Q2 2016
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M&O DEPLOYMENT
• Stand Alone Cluster Q1‘16
– Smaller deployments
– Fully self contained cluster
– Embedded vCenter
• Centralized M&O Q2‘16
– Attach to Enterprise vCenter/M&O Tools
– End to end monitoring and management
– Enterprise wide vRealize
– Enterprise wide NSX

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VXRAIL APPLIANCE SUPPORT EXPERIENCE

1
SINGLE POINT OF SUPPORT
2
DIAL HOME TWO-WAY
3
CHAT & WEB-BASED
FOR HARDWARE & SOFTWARE SECURE REMOTE CONNECTION SERVICE OPTIONS

Customer Environment ESRS EMC Global Support

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 VXRAIL APPLIANCE SERVICES

RAPID DEPLOYMENTS CROSS PRODUCT TRUSTED SUPPORT

INTEGRATION

Expert Installation Extended VxRAIL One Call 24x7 Global

and Implementation Capabilities Support
• Fixed Price, Fixed Scope • Implementation for • Remote Monitoring,
Simplicity when • RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines Diagnostics & Repair with
applicable • vSphere Data Protection EMC Secure Remote
• Custom Scope to meet
• CloudArray Services (ESRS)
specific customer • EMC Parts Retention
requirements

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 No-Charge
No-Charge Software
Software Updates
Updates

2016 ROADMAP New

New Hardware Options
Hardware Options

Available Q2 2H
NOW 2016 2016

• Choice of next-gen Intel processors • Single node scaling

• Intel Broadwell Generation
Flexibility • Variable RAM, storage, and cache
capacity with increased limits to 2048GB,
•
•
VxRail 60
All Flash Storage Models
• 3 Node entry configuration
& Choice 24TB, and 80 cores per appliance • VxRail 240 and VxRail 280
•
•
2 Node ROBO configuration
Single drive upgrades
• Flexible CPU to RAM to Storage ratios • vSphere License Flexibility

• More CPU Cores and RAM

• 3.84TB SSD Support • vSphere & VSAN 2016
Performance •
•
Increased cache size for hybrid models
VSAN 6 performance boost (2X)
• 2TB HDD Support updates
& Scalability • Up to 16 appliances (64 nodes) per
(40TB/Appliance)
• Storage QoS Limits
• VSAN Unified Data Protection
update
cluster

• De-Duplication (Flash)
• Enterprise-class snapshots and clones
• Data Compression (Flash) • Software Data at Rest
• Integrated Replication (VSR or RPVM)
Data Services • Integrated Backup and Recovery
• Erasure Coding (Flash) Encryption (VSAN)
• Metro Stretched Clusters for • Export iSCSI Target from VSAN
• Public Cloud Storage Connector
Zero RPO/RTO

• VCE Vision™ Support • Management Plug-ins

Usability & • Onboard pre-installation validation
• Attachment to external/
enterprise vCenter
• vCloud Air Integration
• •
Manageability •
NSX Integration within Cluster
Next-generation Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode
• Full NSX Support (SDN)
•
VCE VISION Integration
Customer-replaceable Nodes

VCE CONFIDENTIAL—INTERNAL USE ONLY

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