Dell EMC VxRail delivers an agile infrastructure with full stack integrity and end-to-end lifecycle management to drive operational efficiency, reduce risks, and help free up teams to focus on the business. Adoption of VxRail systems that break down operational silos and enable continuous innovation through rapid provisioning and deployment of workloads results in significant cost savings and operational efficiencies.

VxRail systems enables IT organizations to drive business opportunities rather than simply supporting business operations. Built for and with VMware, to enhance VMware, VxRail is the first and only hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) system jointly engineered with VMware to eliminate the operational complexity of deploying, provisioning, managing, monitoring, and updating of HCI.

VxRail is available in several node hardware configurations and deployment options. This document focuses on two of the deployment options: VxRail with vSAN, and VxRail dynamic nodes. Both deployments are built upon the VxRail HCI System Software, providing users with a common operating model for both deployment options to simplify daily data center operations. The following outlines basic VxRail features:

Note: This paper does not cover VxRail hardware configurations. More information can be found in the VxRail Spec Sheet.

Figure 2.   VxRail details