Spec Sheet

Dell EMC VxRail

Designed for VMware, with VMware, to enhance VMware

Dell EMC VxRail™, the only jointly engineered hyperconverged infrastructure 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

existing VMware customers a consistent operating experience. As the foundation for Dell

Technologies Cloud, VxRail is the first hyperconverged system fully integrated with

VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager delivering one, complete, automated platform.

VxRail is a distributed system consisting of common modular building blocks powered by

the best-in-class VxRail HCI System Software that allows customers to start small and

grow, scaling capacity and performance easily and non-disruptively from 2 to 64 nodes in a

cluster. Single-node scaling and storage capacity expansion provide a simple, predictable,

cost-effective “pay-as-you-grow” approach for future growth as needed.

VxRail HCI System Software ensures workloads are always up and running with intelligent

lifecycle management (LCM) that automates non-disruptive upgrades, patches, node

additions or retirement to ensure the VxRail infrastructure is in a continuously validated

state. Coupled with detailed health reporting using infrastructure machine learning from

SaaS multi-cluster management, it has never been easier to keep infrastructure smoothly

running.

Built on PowerEdge servers with a choice of Intel® Xeon® Scalable or AMD EPYC™

processors, VxRail is designed for today’s mission-critical workloads in mind, and also

delivers multiple compute, memory, storage, network and graphics options to cover a wide

variety of applications and workloads. VxRail continuously delivers new 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 delivers 99.9999% high availability

VxRail dynamic nodes expand the way customers can benefit from VxRail HCI System Software. VxRail dynamic node

clusters are compute-only vSphere clusters that allow users to scale compute and storage independently based on

workload needs. By enabling external fiber channel storage to be used as primary storage, for VxRail and VCF on VxRail

solutions, customers can utilize dynamic nodes in a three-tier vSphere architecture to support mission critical data-centric

workloads, like financial services and healthcare applications. VxRail dynamic nodes can also extend to VMware vSAN

HCI Mesh environments where remote vSAN datastores can also be used as primary storage for dynamic node clusters.

VxRail comes stacked with mission-critical data services at no additional charge. Data protection technologies such as a

starter set of licenses for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for VMs is included, with the option of adding Data Protection Suite for

VMware and Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) for larger environments that require more comprehensive data

protection.

Backed by Dell Technologies’ world-class support with a single point of contact for both hardware and software

components and includes Dell EMC Secure Remote Services (SRS) for call-home and proactive two-way remote

connection for remote monitoring, diagnosis, and repair to ensure maximum availability.

VxRail HCI Platforms

Built on the latest Dell PowerEdge Servers, VxRail's broad portfolio provides the flexibility to choose the best platform to

meet your performance, storage, graphics, IO, and cost requirements. No matter your workload, there’s a VxRail platform

to meet your needs.

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.