The Dell EMC VxRail family is the standard in hyperconverged infrastructure, providing extreme flexibility to granularly add capacity and performance on demand and enabling customers to easily extend use cases across the VMware virtualized environment. The system-based design allows IT centers to scale capacity and performance non-disruptively, so they can start small and grow incrementally with minimal up-front planning. VxRail environments can be designed to support a small number of virtual machines and scale to thousands.

The VxRail architecture enables a predictable pay-as-you-grow approach that aligns to changing business goals and user demand. Dell EMC and VMware are continuously innovating, and VxRail introduced new Dell EMC PowerEdge-based models that offer configuration flexibility. This flexibility allows customers to choose performance, graphics, and capacity as required for VMware environments, and supports more use cases.

The Dell EMC VxRail family of systems offers a range of platforms:

E Series: Low profile, cost-effective, go “everywhere” platform. 1U platform with an all NVMe option and NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs. Single or dual socket options powered by Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC™ processors. Ideal for remote, branch office, or edge locations where space is at a premium. Use cases include high performance computing (HPC), VDI, AI/ML, and in-memory databases.

P Series: Performance-intensive 2U platform configurable with 1,2 or 4 Intel Xeon Scalable processors, or a single AMD EPYC processor with up to 64 cores. Ideal for business-critical workloads requiring high performance. Use cases include in-memory intensive database applications such as SAP HANA, HPC and AI/ML.

V Series: Virtualization-extended 2U platform with GPU hardware for graphics-intensive desktops and graphics-compute workloads. Ideal for specialized use cases such as high-end 2D/3D visualization leveraging NVIDIA Data Center GPU cards. Use cases include VDI, AI/ML, large/complex CAD models, computer-aided engineering (CAE), seismic exploration, complex DCC effects, 3D medical imaging, photorealistic rendering, high end virtual science, and data analytics.

D Series: Durable, ruggedized, short-depth platform with a filtered bezel for dust resistance. Designed to withstand extreme conditions such as intense heat and cold, shock, vibration, dust, humidity, and EMI. Available in MIL-STD and DNV-GL Maritime certified configurations. Ideal for space-constrained, remote locations with extreme conditions. Use cases include mobile command centers, retail POS systems, video surveillance, and GPS mapping on the go.

S Series: Storage-dense 2U platform available as single or dual-socket with hybrid storage options to deliver a maximum capacity of 96 TB per node. Ideal for dense storage workloads whose storage capacity scales faster than CPU or memory. Use cases include demanding applications such as virtualized Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, big data, analytics and video surveillance.

G Series: Compute-dense 2U/4-node platform available as single or dual-socket with up to 224 cores. Ideal for environments that require maximum processing power in small spaces. Use cases include processor-dense and general-purpose virtualized workloads.

The E, P, V, D, and S Series are single-node systems based on Dell EMC PowerEdge server technology, the number-one selling x86 server platform, with greater storage capacity, larger memory, and more powerful CPU options. The G Series is a four-node system based on Dell EMC PowerEdge server technology in a compact 2U chassis, providing a compute dense footprint.

VxRail systems are built using a distributed-cluster architecture consisting of modular blocks that scale linearly as the system grows from as small as two nodes to as large as 64 nodes. Nodes are available with different form factors, with single-node systems for use cases: low-profile systems; performance optimized; VDI optimized with GPU; and storage-optimized configurations supporting high-capacity HDD drives.

For applications that benefit from asymmetric scaling of processing power and storage capacity, customers may choose VxRail dynamic nodes which provides the ability to attach external storage resources as their primary storage. VxRail dynamic nodes decouple compute and storage scaling. As processing demand grows, customers can add dynamic nodes to the cluster. As storage capacity demand grows, customers can provision more storage from external storage resources to dynamic nodes.

Extensive compute, memory, and storage options are designed to fit multiple use cases. Customers can choose from a range of next-generation Intel and AMD processors, variable memory sizes, storage, and cache capacity to provide the right balance of compute, memory, and storage. Single-node scaling and a low-cost entry point let customers buy just the right amount of storage and compute for today’s requirements and effortlessly scale to accommodate tomorrow’s growth. Systems are available with all-flash storage configurations that deliver the industry’s most powerful HCI for applications that demand maximum performance and low latency.