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Product Description
Overview:
VCE has expanded the industry’s broadest converged infrastructure system portfolio to include rack-scale hyper-converged systems. The VxRack™ System 1000 series is a VCE engineered and manufactured product family with industry-best life cycle management and assurance, adding rack-scale capabilities to complement VCE Vblock® Systems and VxBlock™ Systems. In addition, the VxRack 1000 connects through VCE Vscale™ Architecture, enabling additional Enterprise and Service Provider use cases and consumption models.
Only VCE provides standardization, modular scale, tightly integrated converged solutions, life cycle management, and industry-best customer experience—enabling on-demand IT services that further accelerate business outcomes and time-to-value.
Hyper-converged Software-defined Storage
VCE VxRack™ System 1000 with FLEX Nodes is engineered by VCE and based on EMC® ScaleIO® technology.
VxRack with FLEX Nodes virtualizes the server’s direct-attached storage (DAS) into a shared, network-based, block storage solution that is similar to SAN storage, yet is software defined. This makes it easy to achieve extreme scale—up to thousands of nodes. As part of the VCE VxRack System 1000 series family, it is the only hyperconverged infrastructures that provides extreme scale. And VxRack with FLEX Nodes achieves this without compromising data center performance, high availability, resiliency, or security.
Start Small and Grow to Web-scale
VxRack with FLEX Nodes enables scale-out capabilities to your data center. Start small with as little as four nodes and grow to web scale. Add nodes one by one within a single rack or scale out with additional racks as compute and storage resources are consumed. This provides your infrastructure with elastic sizing and efficient scalability, allowing you to start small with your proof of concept or new application and grow to web-scale size as your requirements evolve.
Networking
A hyper-converged network can be difficult to build as needs arise and many solutions simply exclude it. Overlooking the network makes it very difficult to plan for growth and as the environment scales, performance degrades. These forgotten components consist of the physical, top-of-rack switches, as well as software defined networking (SDN) technologies.
The VxRack with FLEX Nodes encompasses support for networking—both physical and virtual. Physical networking consists of a leaf-spine topology with top of rack (ToR) and spine switches. Each physical rack contains two ToR switches, which control network traffic and redundancy, and a management switch for out-of-band connectivity. With scale-out across multiple racks, east-west traffic is fully self-contained. Connectivity between racks is provided using the two inter-rack spine switches.
When designing a network, oversubscription, spine density, switch ports, high density, low density, wire rates, are just a few of the many technical details that need to be considered. The VxRack with FLEX Nodes was designed with industry best practices already applied. Best-in-class Cisco Nexus ToR and Spine switches provide 10 GbE or 40 GbE IP connectivity between VxRack with FLEX Nodes and the external network for superior performance. Unlike other solutions in the market, where network bottlenecks limit the scale of hyper-converged infrastructures, the 10 GbE network switches within the VxRack with FLEX Nodes eliminate these restrictions and provides a path for future growth.
Extreme Application Performance
Every node in the VxRack with FLEX Nodes cluster is used in the processing of I/O operations, making all I/O and throughput accessible to any application within the cluster. Such massive I/O parallelism eliminates bottlenecks. Throughput and IOPS scale in direct proportion to the number of nodes added to the system, improving cost/performance rates with growth. Performance optimization is automatic; whenever rebuilds and rebalances are needed, they occur in the background with minimal or no impact to applications and users. The VxRack with FLEX Nodes system autonomously manages performance hot spots and data layout. EMC lab testing results demonstrate
Key Features:
- Delivers a rack-scale hyper-converged solution built on EMC ScaleIO software-defined storage
- Engineered, manufactured, supported, and sustained as a single product by VCE
- Supports VMware vSphere hypervisor
- Makes it easy to achieve extreme scale: 1000+ nodes
- Unifies provisioning, monitoring, and management with VCE VxRack Manager
VxRack™ System 1000 Series
- Easy to deploy. All-inclusive solution including networking.
- Flexible consumption model. Rapidly deploy applications through integrated hyper-converged system.
- Grow-as-you-need. Start small with a single rack and grow to data center scale.
- Asymmetric scale. Flexibly add compute and storage capabilities.
- No more silos. Dissolve data center silos through an architecture that accommodates both traditional converged and hyper-converged environments.
- Simplified operations with unified UI. Manage through a standard framework that provides a comprehensive systems and data center view of infrastructure.
- VCE Experience. VxRack™ Systems are pre-built, pre-tested, and receive pre-validation on new firmware/and software releases (Release Certification Matrix).
The significance of networking at scale
- Plan for growth—Expand your environment easily without the worry of complicated network calculations.
- Integrate networking—Networking is a critical part of the hyper-converged infrastructure. Don’t treat it as a separate technology silo.
- Performance at scale— Oversubscription and spine-density best practices will be needed to ensure performance at scale.
- Simplify the complexity—A multirack architecture cannot be built spontaneously. Logical planning and a massive number of physical connections are a necessity.
VxRack System 1000 networking benefits
- Standardized and repeatable
- Easily extensible
- Greatly simplifies operations
- Lowers risk
- Superior application performance at scale
Specifications:
| VCE VxRack System 1000 with FLEX Nodes Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Storage Type | Direct Attached Storage (DAS) |
| Compute Integration | x86 standard architecture |
| Networking | Cisco Nexus switches |
| Server Virtualization | VMware vSphere VMware ESXi VMware vSphere Server Enterprise Plus VMware vCenter Server |
| Storage Virtualization | EMC ScaleIO |
| Management Infrastructure | VCE Vision VxRack Manager for unified access and management VCE Vision Intelligent Operations for telemetry data |
| Product | VCE VxRack Products |
| Solution For | Data Center Consolidation Converged Infrastructure Mid-Range Storage Enterprise-Class Storage |
| Browse By | Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Rack |
