Dell EMC VxRail, a jointly engineered hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) system with VMware, is the easiest and fastest way to extend a VMware environment. Powered by VMware vSAN and managed through the VMware vCenter interface, VxRail provides a consistent operating experience. An HCI system includes, at a minimum, compute, software-defined storage, and virtualized networking and can run on commercial off-the-shelf servers. The underlying resources are abstracted and pooled together which allows them to be dynamically allocated to applications running in virtual machines (VMs) or containers.

Built on PowerEdge servers with a choice of Intel Xeon Scalable or AMD EPYC processors, VxRail is designed for today’s mission-critical workloads and also delivers multiple compute, memory, storage, network, and graphics options to cover a wide variety of applications and workloads. VxRail supports the latest technologies such as Intel Optane persistent memory, NVMe cache and capacity drives, 100 Gb/s networking, and NVIDIA Data Center GPUs. And with redundancy built in at every opportunity—from the SATA M.2 RAID 1 “BOSS”, high-efficiency redundant power supplies, and multiple networking ports—VxRail supports up to 99.9999% high availability.

Figure 21.    Dell EMC VxRail

The components that make up a VxRail configuration are as follows:

• Compute—Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
• Storage—VMware vSAN
• Hypervisor—VMware vSphere
• VxRail Manager—Plug-in for VMware vCenter

The VxRail configuration is highly customizable and designed to meet any HCI requirements to appropriately size a VA-based workload like ISS SecurOS.