The VxRail system has been integrated, tested, and validated as a turnkey solution by Dell Technologies. Each node is built on a Dell PowerEdge server, which includes the following hardware components:
- Intel Xeon Scalable Gen 1 and Gen 2 processors with single, dual, or quad cores (up to 28 cores per processor) or a single 2nd-generation AMD EPYC processor with up to 64 cores
- An up-to-24-DDR4 dual in-line memory module (memory capacity ranges from 64 GB to 6 TB).
- A mirrored pair of Boss SATA M.2 cards (stores the ESXi operating system) installed on the node
- A 10/25 Gb Network Daughter Card used to connect to VxRail's foundation network (ESXi management, vMotion, vSAN, and virtual machine network)
- If Hybrid configuration: Contains a single solid state drive (SSD) flash disk for caching (the cache tier) and multiple HDD disks for capacity (the capacity tier)
- If All-flash configuration: Contains all SAS SSD or Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) drives for both cache and SAS or SATA SSD for capacity
The Dell VxRail system (shown in the following figure) provides different features, such as:
- A single management dashboard
- Deployment automation
- Lifecycle Manager
- Flexible scale-out
- Storage Policy Based Management
- Cisco Discovery Protocol
- Single vendor end-to-end support
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All of VxRail's operations can be executed with the VxRail Manager plugin in vCenter Server. VxRail's architecture can deliver cost-effective and flexible scale-out. The customer can scale out the computer and storage capacity when adding a new node to the existing VxRail cluster.