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Dell EMC VxRail HCI System Software
It’s well understood that a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) improves efficiency, increases scalability, and lowers costs.
Dell EMC VxRail HCI System Software helps you amplify these benefits by providing HCI users with:
Consistent operations Familiar Integrated APIs
using native integration management tools Lifecycle Management for extensibility
(LCM)
Automated
Lifecycle
Management
(LCM)
Multi-Cluster
Management
RESTful
APIs
THE VxRail
ADVANTAGE VxRail
The VxRail turnkey experience starts with Manager
full stack integration of software and
hardware control and visibility from top to
bottom for a consistent, deeply integrated Single Point
VMware environment. of Support
Ecosystem
Connectors
Electronic
Compatibility
Matrix
Better together
VxRail goes further to deliver more highly differentiated features and benefits based on proprietary
VxRail HCI System Software. This unique combination automates deployment, provides full stack
lifecycle management and facilitates critical upstream and downstream integration points that
create a truly better together experience with VxRail as the foundation.
INTEGRATED HCI SYSTEM SOFTWARE
Our integrated software extends VMware’s native capabilities to deliver a seamless, automated, operational
experience, that keeps your infrastructure in a Continuously Validated State, so your workloads stay up and running.
Centralized management
VxRail Manager Multi-Cluster Management
As the central management engine and automation tool for seamless AI and machine learning analyze the state of every cluster in your
VxRail cluster operations, VxRail Manager, natively integrates with environment to help you hone performance and improve
VMware vCenter, reducing complexity and helping you: system availability.
Deploy, manage, upgrade, patch and add/retire nodes to a cluster Optimize IT operations and anticipate growth requirements using
Perform diagnostics easily with physical views of each node, down predictive analytics, health checks, and remediation
to the component level Simplify the upgrade process by analyzing the state of every
Find support information and tools like knowledge articles and cluster, recommend and pre-stage individual upgrades
proactive Secure Remote Services Automatically determine the optimal component upgrades
Active, global cluster management for customers with multiple or
geographically distributed clusters
Automation and orchestration
Automated Lifecycle Management (LCM) Ecosystem Connectors
Intelligent lifecycle management identifies the optimal state and Integrate software and hardware to enable LCM, diagnostic
updates clusters with pre-validated, pre-tested software, and automation, and orchestration services across the entire stack.
firmware. Tightly integrate infrastructure components
Plan: Schedule and run upgrade health checks in advance of including vSAN, vSphere, physical servers, and
upgrades to ensure clusters are in a ready state for the next networking
upgrade or patch Connects with 3rd party infrastructure
Execute: Automate single-click full-stack patching and updating in components including NICs and GPUs
pre-determined sequences VxRail integration with SmartFabric Services
Sustain: Record every component change from one validated state automates network fabric configuration and
to the next with compliance reporting management for VxRail clusters
RESTful APIs Electronic Compatibility Matrix
Build and operate your infrastructure with cloud-like scale and Compliance validation of all possible configuration
agility, while streamlining your IT environment and processes. and upgrade paths.
Leverage the full power of automation and orchestration services Enable customers to choose the Continuously
across your data center Validated State that best optimizes each cluster
Simplify automation for Windows and VMware vSphere using for its respective workloads
supported web browsers or from familiar CLIs Identify every component required to seamlessly
bypass releases and patches
Single point of support
Ensure maximum availability with a single point of contact for both
hardware and software. Includes Secure Remote Services (SRS)
for call-home and proactive two-way remote connection for remote
monitoring, diagnosis, and repair.
1,800+
VMware-certified
Dell EMC support
professionals
Free your IT resources Gain efficiency with Co-located Dell EMC
to focus on growth 24x7 comprehensive VxRail and VMware 3,750+
initiatives with support global support available support teams combined VMware
for your integrated VxRail through the web, chat, collaborate to help quickly
systems, including vSAN, phone, or call-back. address issues should they certifications
vSphere, and VxRail HCI occur.
System Software.
Achieve Gain Increase
simplicity agility efficiency
up to 60% Reduce downtime with up to 52%
improved efficiency 88% lower operation costs
of IT infrastructure team* fewer unplanned outages* compared with refreshing
legacy environments*
*Delivering Efficient Business Expansion with Dell EMC VMware-Based HCI,” IDC whitepaper sponsored by Dell EMC, October 2018.
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