Product Description
Overview:
VCE has expanded the industry&rsquos broadest converged infrastructure system portfolio to include rack-scale hyper-converged systems. The VxRack&trade 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&trade Systems. In addition the VxRack 1000 connects through VCE Vscale&trade 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&mdashenabling on-demand IT services that further accelerate business outcomes and time-to-value.
Hyper-converged Software-defined Storage
VCE VxRack System 1000 with SDDC Nodes powered by VMware EVO SDDC is a new class of hyper-converged integrated systems that provides the easiest path to a VMware software-defined data center. This turnkey solution is a fully software-defined system that takes advantage of market leading hardware and software technologies from VCE and VMware to deliver a complete self-contained private cloud. Designed to enable a unique radically simpler operational experience VxRack with SDDC Nodes will transform and future proof your data center by removing the focus on maintaining infrastructure. Leveraging VxRack with SDDC Nodes you can now deliver infrastructure as a service through a private cloud in less than 24 hours. As a result your cloud will be a competitive advantage by allowing you to provide services faster deploy applications sooner reduce downtime and spend less time keeping the lights on.
VxRack with SDDC Nodes is a hyper-converged rack-scale system intended for enterprise scale deployments of virtual infrastructure infrastructure as a service and virtual desktops infrastructure (VDI). Each system is based on a standardized architecture that combines qualified customizable hardware (x86 nodes and top of rack and spine switching) with pre-loaded integrated software components in a complete and validated solution. The VxRack with SDDC Nodes provides capabilities that far exceed simple hyper-converged appliances by addressing&mdashin addition to compute and storage needs requirements for networking (physical and virtual)&mdashcloud operations and system management automation.
VMware EVO SDDC is the foundation software suite of VxRack with SDDC Nodes. VMware EVO SDDC combines VMware&rsquos market leading SDDC software into a seamlessly integrated solution. In addition a new capability of EVO SDDC Manager EVO SDDC delivers radically simpler user experience by automating day 0 to day 2 system operations. EVO SDDC includes:
- VMware vSphere (hypervisor)
- VMware NSX (network virtualization)
- VMware Virtual SAN (software-defined storage)
- VMware vRealize Operations and Log Insights (cloud operations)
- VMware EVO SDDC Manager (end-to-end system management automation)
- Customers can also choose to include VMware Horizon for VDI use casesSubtitle
Start Small and Grow to Web-scale
VxRack with SDDC Nodes enables scale-out capabilities to your data center. Start small with as little as eight 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.
Policy-based Provisioning
Supporting up to 1000 server virtual machines (VMs) or up to 2000 VDI per physical rack VxRack with SDDC Nodes has the flexibility to host multiple workloads with distinct availability performance and security characteristics across resource pools. Unique to EVO SDDC this is used by administrators to simultaneously run heterogeneous applications on the same-shared standardized infrastructure. EVO SDDC abstracts physical resources across multiple physical racks into a logical pool of compute storage and networking resources a Virtual Rack that a cloud admin can dynamically allocate to different use cases or Workload Domains. For instance a single multi-rack deployment could be used to run a workload domain for a dev/test workload that has different performance (balanced) and availability (low) requirements than a separate workload domain for a production workload requiring high availability and high performance. Provisioning is entirely policy driven and completely automated through EVO SDDC Manager. VMware NSX ensures network isolation between workload domains that share the same physical infrastructure. Each workload domain can be managed independently using well-known tools such as VMware vCenter Server and VMware vRealize Operations.
Physical and Virtual 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 SDDC Nodes system integrates support for networking&mdashboth physical and virtual. Physical networking consists of a leafspine topology with top of rack (ToR) and spine switches. The EVO SDDC Manager in the VxRack with SDDC Nodes system includes support for configuring controlling and managing the physical network elements. In addition virtual networking is handled through VMware NSX.
Each physical rack contains two ToR switches which control network traffic and redundancy and a management switch for out-ofband 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.
Oversubscription spine density switch ports high density low density wire rates and the list goes on. The VxRack with SDDC Nodeswas 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 SDDC Nodes and the external network for superior performance. The 10 GbE network switches eliminate the network bottleneck that limits the scale of other hyper-converged infrastructure solutions in the market and provides a path for future growth.
Enhanced VM security through software-defined networking with VMware NSX in EVO SDDC offers automated and intelligent operations and delivery of security services including firewall data security activity monitoring and VPN (IPSEC SSL). This is achieved through intelligent groupings security policy and services assigned to groups and adaptable and proactive security using IF/THEN policy mechanisms to assign responses.
Specifications
VxRack with SDDC Nodes makes the transition to a software-defined data center and private cloud simple by removing complexities such as architecting and integrating a build-it-yourself solution.
 
Key Features:
- Delivers a rack-scale hyper-converged solution powered by VMware EVO SDDC
- Engineered manufactured supported and sustained as a single product by VCE
- Simplifies and automates data center operations for VMware-centric data centers
- Scales to hundreds of nodes
- Provides system management layer with VMware EVO SDDC Manager
VxRack&trade 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&trade 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&mdashExpand your environment easily without the worry of complicated network calculations.
- Integrate networking&mdashNetworking is a critical part of the hyper-converged infrastructure. Don&rsquot treat it as a separate technology silo.
- Performance at scale&mdash Oversubscription and spine-density best practices will be needed to ensure performance at scale.
- Simplify the complexity&mdashA 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 SDDC Nodes Specifications | |
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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 | VMware Virtual SAN |
Network Virtualization | VMware NSX |
Management Infrastructure | VMware EVO SDDC Manager VCE Vision Intelligent Operations for unified access and management VMware vRealize Operations VMware vRealize Log Insight |
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