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As customers select a cloud-operating model to support their applications, elasticity and scalability of public clouds and enterprise file capabilities such as tiering, quotas, and snapshots are top requirements. Customers are looking to leverage the cloud for file synchronization and disaster recovery operations.
Dell Unity Cloud Edition addresses these requirements with support for VMC (VMware Cloud) on AWS (Amazon Web Services). Dell Unity Cloud Edition can be easily deployed in a VMware Cloud SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center) to provide native file services such as NFS and SMB. Dell Unity Cloud Edition also enables disaster recover between on premise deployed Dell Unity systems and VMware Cloud-based appliances.
Dell Unity Cloud Edition is a virtualized storage appliance that has a rich feature set, comparable to the rest of the Dell Unity Family. Because of its ease of use and quick deployment time, this makes Dell Unity Cloud Edition the ideal candidate for test/dev environments or production deployments into VMC on AWS.
Dell Unity Cloud Edition supports the same deployment options as Dell UnityVSA. In OE version 5.1 this includes the increased capacity limit of up to 350TB and the 2-core / 12GB memory and 12-core / 96GB memory Dual-SP deployment options.
For more information about Dell Unity Cloud Edition and its benefits, see the paper titled Dell Unity Cloud Edition with VMware Cloud on AWS on the Dell Technologies Info Hub.