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Ask the Expert: Introducing the New VCE VxRail™ Appliance
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conversation about the new
VCE VxRail™ Appliance.
VxRail is the market’s only fully integrated, preconfigured, hyper-converged appliance that extend and simplify VMware environments. The VxRail Appliance family brings together the best of EMC and VMware including EMC rich data services and leading systems management capabilities with VMware’s leading hyper-converged software that includes VMware vSphere and Virtual SAN, the industry’s most vSphere integrated software-defined storage – all in a single product family with one point of support. VxRail Appliances seamlessly plug into VMware eco-system management solutions to simplify IT operations while lowering costs, and is a turnkey, easily scalable appliance that creates an automated, software-defined infrastructure for the modern, innovation-focused data center.
Now, we invite you to be part of the discussion and directly engage with our SMEs and community members, ask technical questions, and learn how the VCE VxRail Appliance offers:
- FLEXIBILITY AND CHOICE:Build-to-order hardware in both hybrid and all-flash node configurations allows customers to buy what they need now and provide a predictable, “pay-as-you-grow” approach for future scale out.
- PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY: Delivering a known and proven building block for the SDDC based on VMware vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN software that delivers up to 5X performance while scaling easily and non-disruptively starting from 40 VMs up to 3,200 VMs.
- USABILITY AND MANAGEMENT: Powered by VMware Hyper-Converged Software and managed through the familiar vCenter Server interface with seamless integration of current VMware technology lets customers leverage and extend their existing IT tools, processes and skillsets with an experience they already know. And for a comprehensive IT core to edge management ecosystem, VxRail is discoverable and visible in VCE VISION.
- AND MORE…
We look forward to talking with you!
To learn more about the new VCE VxRail Appliance, click here.
Meet Your Experts:
| Hanoch Eiron Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware Hanoch is the lead product marketing manager for VxRail at VMware. He helped grow the converged and hyper-converged markets since their inception in 2010. Hanoch presented at various industry events and authored blogs and articles. He holds and MBA from UC Berkeley. |
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| Shannon Champion Product Marketing Manager Product Marketing Manager for Hyper-Converged Appliances. She has worked in the technology industry for over 15 years, with global experience in engineering, supply chain, channel partners, and marketing. Twitter: @smchampion |
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| Joe Vukson Product Marketing Joe Vukson is part of the Product Marketing team bringing the VCE Hyper-Converged Appliance to market. While at EMC he has executed numerous successful launches for the VSPEX Reference Architecture program as well as VSPEX BLUE. Prior to EMC, he held marketing and product marketing leadership positions and delivered successful marketing and communications initiatives for startups and the world’s largest technology companies. |
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| Richard Preston Product Manager – VxRail Richard is a Product Manager for VxRail with a focus workloads and sizing. Previously, he worked as a Solutions Manager for the VSPEX RA program. Richard has worked in high tech for almost 30 years, holding a wide range of positions in Europe, Asia, and North America. He currently lives near Seattle, where the weather reminds him of The Netherlands where he grew up. |
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| Director, Product Management Rieko Sato is responsible for hyper-converged infrastructure appliance products. Prior to this role, she led strategic planning of VNX/VNXe management software. She has over twenty years of experience in identifying market and product requirements for a wide range of software and hardware products. |
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| Global Principal Consultant, HCIA Jeremy has over 15 years experience working at EMC and NetApp. He’s currently part of the Global Sales Enablement Engineering team within the Hyper-converged Business Unit at EMC. Prior to joining the HCI business unit, he held roles at EMC in DPAD business unit, as a Mid-Tier SE (supporting Isilon and VNX. In addition, he was part of the Data Protection Technical Marketing team at NetApp, focusing on replication technologies. He’s a resident of Raleigh, NC and an alumnae of Florida State University. |
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| Global Principal Consultant, HCIA Curtis has been at EMC for 10 years in several different technical roles ranging from Field SE, DPAD SE, Partner SE, Principal Global SE as well as being one of the key members of the Emerging Technologies Team, the VSPEX Global Enablement Team and is currently part of the EMC Worldwide Enablement and Engineering Team for the VxRail family. |
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bob12344234
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February 26th, 2016 12:00
Question about VSAN licensing:
Is it included as part of the solution?
If a customer has an existing VMware ELA that only covers vSphere/vCenter what do they need to purchase?
Thanks.
Jeremy.Merrill
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February 29th, 2016 09:00
We don't currently have SAP design white papers, but for all intents and purposes, you can look at this similar to an ESX Cluster.
You'll still need NSX licenses, the VxRail appliances are just NSX Ready.
engmaliali
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February 29th, 2016 09:00
Thanks ! , I am talking about SAP workloads , not HANA ,
For NSX , does that mean the customer does not need to buy additional NSX licenses ? to use NSX on the VxRail ?
Jeremy.Merrill
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February 29th, 2016 09:00
For SAP, are you talking HANA or other SAP Workloads?
VxRail is NSX ready - the default switch that gets created during the install is a virtual distributed switch.
Jeremy.Merrill
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February 29th, 2016 09:00
Yes - the VSAN licensing is included in the appliance itself.
If the customer has an existing ELA (they need 8 enterprise plus licenses), you would sell the "VLP" version of VxRail. Otherwise, quote the VxRail Appliance. That version will included the vSphere licenses.
Nori_Ishitsuka
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February 29th, 2016 20:00
Thank you for your comments.
Yes, I can understand competitive of VCE branded.
And I've posted other question about Virtual Appliance loadmap.
Would you let me know the information or your comments.
Regards.
RobertoAraujo1
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March 1st, 2016 12:00
Hello to you all folks! I see that this discussion is as lively as it started. Not to steal the thunder, but to incentivate those who enjoy taking part of ATE discussions, following I will display other ATE session that some of you may find very interesting.
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Tamerajr
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March 1st, 2016 12:00
and the Ask the Expert: Introducing the New VCE VxRail™ Appliance is ongoing until Friday so make sure to get your questions in before then.
Anonymous
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March 2nd, 2016 05:00
Hi,
A customer asked me about the integration of VxRail with VSOM (VMware Operations Manager). It has native integration? Or VxRail provides some similar tool to perform this function? Thanks.
CUE1
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March 2nd, 2016 05:00
VxRail is compatable with all the VMware tools/products. Whatever tools your customer wants to use on top of vSphere can also be used with VxRail. No additional learning curve necessary.
Willing
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March 2nd, 2016 06:00
Hi,
Does the vSphere in the VxRail include VMware FT (Fault Tolerance) functionality? I am not talking about VSAN fault tolerance, this is specifically VMware FT using a secondary VM sync image on a secondary node. Thanks
Anonymous
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March 2nd, 2016 06:00
Hi,
Anoter little question about VSOM and VxRAIL.
The VSOM is Licensing is available/included with VxRail Software Pack? Or in this case, if the customer ask, we will have to quote that item VSOM license separately. Thanks a lot
Anonymous
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March 2nd, 2016 07:00
vSphere FT is not included with or supported on VxRail as it requires a dedicated 10GbE connection per node that VxRail with its two 10GbE NICs per nodwcannot provide
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Richard
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Willing
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March 2nd, 2016 08:00
Thanks Rich,
Considering single instance storage, what is provided for continuous data availability if let's say a VM were to go down on 1 node due to hardware failure? I recon we can use HA however there is interruption. Also can use RP4VM which can provide near zero RPO and RTO but not quite zero as there would be some intervention for rollback. Considering these points, what is the closest thing to substitute for VMware FT? Thanks
Anonymous
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March 2nd, 2016 09:00
You just listed the two options I know of.
Do other VMware experts watching on know of alternatives?