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Solution overview
Enterprises everywhere are increasingly adopting Converged Infrastructure (CI) as one of the best ways to rapidly accelerate IT transformation while adopting modern technologies, reducing risk, and simplifying operations. Dell EMC has enabled thousands of customers worldwide to simplify and modernize IT while allowing for digital transformation. If you are looking for an innovative way to deploy a modern IT infrastructure that delivers on real business benefits, allowing you to focus on your business and less on infrastructure management, the Dell EMC VxBlock System 1000 is for you.
A New Generation of Converged Infrastructure that Improves Flexibility, Efficiency, and Simplicity
A new generation of converged infrastructure that improves flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity | Solution overview
Lower cost of operations
61% 66% 52%More efficient IT operations
Less time spent keeping the lights on
34% 99% 640%Faster application
deployment life cycleLess unplanned
downtimeFive-year ROI
VxBlock Systems business benefits realized.Benefits based on an IDC Paper sponsored by Dell EMC. Results may vary.
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OverviewTraditional converged infrastructure systems often require you to choose different systems for different applications’ performance, capacity, and data-service needs. The VxBlock System 1000 breaks the boundaries of traditional CI by offering the industry’s first converged system designed for all workloads in the modern data center with:
• Unprecedented choice to mix, share, and adapt pools of market-leading storage, data protection, and compute resources for all workloads to maximize performance and utilization.
• Trusted life cycle assurance with a unique Release Certification Matrix (RCM) and a dynamic, customer- accessible RCM portal that provides proactive, customized recommendations to accelerate and simplify the infrastructure update process.
• A future-proof design to ensure that your system is able to support next-generation technologies to address extreme performance, scalability, and on-going simplicity requirements.
Benefits• Greater business agility offering an unprecedented choice of technologies suitable for all workloads in
one system.
• Improved data center efficiency by pooling and sharing resources to maximize utilization and ROI.
• Better operational simplicity, delivering a customized turnkey, engineered system experience.
Trends and challengesWhy is that important? Today, 84 percent of converged infrastructure users say that CI has made their IT environment more agile based on an ESG paper sponsored by Dell EMC. VxBlock System 1000 takes the complexities out of component integration, it simplifies upgrades and ongoing management, and it comes with single-call support for all components, including compute, network, and storage, virtualization, and data-protection requirements.
How it worksThe VxBlock System 1000 fully integrates industry-leading technologies—including Dell EMC all-flash storage technologies, Cisco UCS® M4 and M5 blade and rack servers, Cisco LAN and SAN networking, VMware virtualization, and Dell EMC data protection options—into one fully integrated system delivering a turnkey, engineered experience.
Systems Using a Logical Configuration Survey (LCS) to customize integration and deployment, all system elements are preintegrated, preconfigured, then tested and validated before shipping. Turnkey integration allows you to operate and manage your system as a single engineered product, rather than as individual, siloed components. Ongoing, component-level testing and qualification result in a drastically simplified update process. The result is significant time and resource savings throughout the system lifecycle, allowing you to focus your resources on business innovation.
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Dell EMC Data Protection for Converged Infrastructure simplifies backup, recovery, and failover of your VxBlock System 1000. Dell EMC offers the most advanced data deduplication, replication, and data protection technologies for achieving your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements.
VxBlock 1000 – #1 in converged, now all-in-1 system
General purposeworkloads
VxBlock 1000
Enterpriseworkloads
Traditional andmodern workloads
Mission criticalworkloads
Cisco UCSRack Servers
Cisco NexusLAN Switch
Dell EMCUnity
Dell EMCVMAX
Dell EMCPowerMax
Cisco UCSBlade Servers
Business Agility Right mix of resources and data servicesfor applications when you need them
Shared resource pools maximize utilization,eliminate stranded capacity, and increase ROI
Turnkey system experience frees you to innovate
Data Center Efficiency
Operational Simplicity
Cisco MDSSAN Switch
Dell EMCXtremIO X2
Dell EMCIsilon-Gen 6
Dell EMCVision
Dell EMCAMP
Dell EMCData Protection
Suite
Big data andanalytics
Cloud
ServicesDell EMC delivers fully integrated, 24/7 support with a single phone call. There’s never any finger-pointing between vendors, and you can always rely on our fully cross-trained team for a fast resolution to any problem. Dell EMC’s portfolio of services (including deployment, migration, and residency services) accelerates the speed of deployment and integration into your IT environment and minimizes downtime by ensuring that your software remains up to date and your hardware remains operational throughout the full product lifecycle.
“The VxBlock has enabled us to make tremendous positive changes. Our users are thrilled with the IT team’s responsiveness and with the accelerated application performance. It’s also changed the relationship between IT and the college. Business units now engage us to consult early in their decision process. We’ve become an integral partner in college business.” — Mark Wiseley, Senior Director of IT, Palmer College
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Component Details
Compute (Note: Mixing blade servers and rack servers in one system is supported.)
Chassis: Cisco UCS 5108
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers: B200 M4, B260 M4, B420 M4, B460 M4, B200 M5, B480 M5
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers: C220 M4 , C240 M4, C220 M5, C240 M5
Cisco Fabric Extenders (FEX): Cisco UCS 2304 XP and Cisco Nexus 2348 UPQ
Cisco Fabric Interconnect (FI): Cisco UCS 6332-16UP
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC): 1225, 1227, 1340, 1380, 1385, 1387
Maximum number of servers per system
Cisco chassis: 50
Cisco blade servers: 560
Cisco rack mount servers:1120
Networking LAN: Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2
SAN: Cisco MDS 9148S, 9396S, 9706, 9710 (16G)
Management connectivity: Cisco Nexus 31108TC-V, Nexus 3232C
Storage (Note: Mixing multiple storage types in one system is supported.)
Dell EMC Unity All Flash 350F, 450F, 550F, 650F
Dell EMC PowerMax -2000 and 8000
Dell EMC VMAX All Flash 250F, 950F
Dell EMC XtremIO X2S, X2R
Dell EMC Isilon All Flash, Hybrid, and Archival F800, H600, H500, H400, A200, A2000
Virtualization VMware: vSphere Enterprise Plus (includes VDS), ESXi, vCenter Server (Note: Bare-metal deployments are also supported.)
Data protection Integrated Backup, Integrated Replication, and Integrated Business Continuity
Dell EMC: Avamar; NetWorker, Data Protection Search, Data Protection Advisor, Data Protection Central, CloudBoost, RecoverPoint and RP4VM; VPLEX
System management
Compute: AMP-VX for multisystem management includes four to eight rack servers, VMware vSAN and vRealize Log Insight, Avamar Virtual Edition that is integrated with a Data Domain 6300 for protection of the AMP-VX Software:
AMP-3S for single management support only, includes two to six rack servers and a Dell EMC Unity hybride storage array.
Software: Dell EMCVision software, Unisphere, InsightIQ (Isilon), Secure Remote Services (ESRS), Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) for LAN and SAN, Cisco UCS Manager and PowerPath.
Cabinet PowerPath Intelligent Physical Cabinet Solution from Dell EMC
Essentials• Greater business agility offering an unprecedented choice of technologies suitable for all workloads in
one system.
• Improved data center efficiency by pooling and sharing resources to maximize utilization and ROI.
• Better operational simplicity, delivering a customized turnkey, engineered system experience.
VxBlock System 1000 support specification summary
The Cisco AdvantageVxBlock 1000 integrates Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus with Dell EMC storage which contributes to its leadership position in converged infrastructure.
• Over 4,000 global installations host mission-critical workloads on Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure.
• The most demanding industries count on VxBlock systems, including 8 out of 10 largest US financial sector.
By seamlessly integrating enterprise-class compute, network, storage and virtualization technologies from industry leaders Cisco, Dell EMC, and VMware, VxBlock 1000 delivers the world’s most advanced converged infrastructure: engineered, manufactured, managed, supported, and sustained as one.
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