Simplifying the journey to the software-defined data centre

The VxRack System based on VMware EVO SDDC is a turnkey hyper-converged system with VMware’s software factory-integrated with VCE’s pre-engineered, factory built hardware and management software. EVO SDDC provides storage, network and compute virtualisation wrapped with advanced automation and management. The VxRack VMware EVO SDDC persona removes complexity to enable efficiency and faster realisation of SDDC benefits and provides a flexible scale-out platform. This new VxRack System reinforces VCE’s leadership in the converged infrastructure space with the industry’s most comprehensive set of solutions - Vblocks, VxRacks and the VSPEX BLUE appliance - that help organisations accelerate and simplify their journey to the cloud.

VCE hyper-converged infrastructure with industry-leading lifecycle management delivers an unmatched VCE customer experience proven to reduce risk and deliver data centre transformation. All VxRack Systems can leverage EMC software-defined storage and take advantage of the VCE Vscale™ Architecture and VCE Vision® software to provide consistent data centre scale resource pooling with consistent converged operations and management. This unified data centre architecture that spans multiple locations and geographies adds another critical dimension to scale and flexibility offered by VCE.

The VCE VxRack System based on VMware EVO SDDC enables enterprises and Service Providers to build an IaaS platform and VDI solutions based on a complete software-defined data centre architecture and to enjoy ultimate simplicity, faster time-to-value and flexibility in scaling using software-defined storage and industry standard server hardware. VMware EVO SDDC Manager™ provides integrated lifecycle management of both hardware and software from initial bring-up to provisioning to upgrades and patching. This VxRack System is suitable for organisations that want cloud agility and efficiencies with improved economics and security. It is also ideal for those who intend to standardise on VMware cloud technologies and want a solid foundation for their SDDC or organisations wanting to simplify and automate data centre operations for VMware-centric data centres.

“As IT budgets remain flat while the pace businesses are moving increases, IT organisations are turning to VCE converged infrastructure to transform their data centres to support growth. VCE software-defined hyper-converged VxRack Systems provide unparalleled flexibility enabled by a choice of software stacks that define the persona of the system. The new VxRack System based on VMware EVO SDDC simplifies the path to realise the full benefits of a VMware software-defined data centre,” said Todd Pavone, VCE Executive Vice President, Product Strategy and Development.

“Customers are transforming their data centres with integrated systems and cloud technologies to drive down IT capex and opex. VMware is focused on helping customers achieve this with the new VMware EVO SDDC solution that is a prescriptive set of software to build and manage a cloud. The innovative VCE VxRack hyper-converged rackscale system with factory integrated VMware EVO SDDC will make it simpler and more cost effective for organisations to embark on their journey to a fully software-defined data centre,” said John Gilmartin, Vice President and General Manager, Integrated Systems Business Unit, VMware.