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Dell Storage with VMware Cloud Foundation
Introduction Dell storage systems with VMware Cloud Foundation
Introduction
Principal and supplemental storage for workload domains
Customer use cases
Protocol deployment options
Prerequisites Workload domain configuration with NFS Workload domain configuration with FC, NVMe-oF, iSCSI, or vVols Appendix: Technical support and resources

Customer use cases

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Customer use cases

  • Customers can now use Dell storage Validated Designs to build their own hybrid cloud infrastructure, combining the best of software-defined and traditional architectures. With more choices, they have deployment flexibility to meet unique external storage-intensive requirements such as the ability to scale storage capacity independent from compute capacity.

    PowerMax, PowerStore, and Unity XT storage systems support Network File System (NFS), Fibre Channel (FC), and Virtual Volumes (vVols) as principal storage and iSCSI as supplemental storage. In addition, IP-based SAN storage products like PowerFlex are supported as supplemental storage.

    Storage-intensive applications

    Dell storage arrays are ideal for applications with demanding throughput and capacity needs. They are powerful additions to VMware Cloud Foundation environments, delivering the flexibility to scale storage independent of compute for greater performance and application flexibility. In addition, customers can also build new levels of storage resiliency with replication for disaster recovery from on-premises data centers to multiple sites, for example.

    Investment protection

    Customers with existing Dell storage infrastructure can now easily attach existing data capacity to their hybrid cloud environments. Attaching external storage enables them to take advantage of the advanced data services, performance, and capacity that PowerMax, PowerStore, Unity XT, and PowerFlex delivers.

    Deployment automation

    The vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plug-in for PowerMax and PowerStore allows administrators to take advantage of VMware deployment tools of choice to rapidly stand up new environments with attached external storage. Customers can now run storage operations such as provisioning storage or scheduling snapshots directly from vRO. In addition, they can further automate storage-management activities by establishing workflows through a self-service portal using vRealize Automation (vRA). Workflows allow administrators to simplify the user experience and deliver a predefined catalog of items that users can deploy without prior knowledge of specific storage platforms. Examples of self-service items include:

    • High-performance storage: Predefined storage for workloads that require low latency such as credit card authorizations for retail transactions. Users select preconfigured high-performance NVMe storage capacity that offers high read/write performance that is designed to support Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) transactional workloads.
    • Data warehouse storage: Predefined storage for workloads that require large sequential read performance such as business analytics. Users select preconfigured high-capacity storage (such as NL-SAS or SATA drives) that offers great sequential read performance supporting large database queries.