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APEX Private Cloud delivers integrated compute, storage, networking, and virtualization resources. With virtualization from VMware (vSphere and vSAN) powered by Dell VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure, you can deploy a simple and scalable private cloud solution on-premises or at an edge location. You can automate deployments and provide full-stack, single-click life cycle management through VxRail Manager.
Instances are standardized combinations of compute, memory, storage, and networking resources—defined by a fixed physical memory to a physical core ratio and powered by VxRail. They are optimized for your virtualized and containerized workload requirements, ranging from small (4 GB) to extra-large (32 GB) memory-to-CPU core ratios. We also offer special-purpose instance types with graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA to address artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Instance capacities are offered in blocks of 25, 50, 100, 200, and 500 instances, enabling you to scale your cloud deployment to meet your workload requirements. Instance blocks can be added together to run a larger quantity of instances of the same type, or you can mix blocks to support multiple, different workloads within the same solution.
The solutions described in this white paper are built on four general-purpose blocks of 50 instances (G-50) and all-flash cluster storage capacity.