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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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ColinGallagher
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March 2nd, 2016 10:00
vSOM is separate packaging of vSphere and not included in the bundled licensing version of Appliance.to use vSOM customers would have to supply their own licenses.
See: for more details:
Compare vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management Editions | United States
Willing
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March 2nd, 2016 10:00
Thanks Colin,
I was told by more than one source that by not selecting the VLP option, the appliances are shipped with vSphere Enterprise Plus. Please confirm otherwise and or what would be the config to achieve this. Thanks
ColinGallagher
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March 2nd, 2016 10:00
The non-VLP VxRail orders ship with a bundled vSpehe Standard license.
ColinGallagher
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March 2nd, 2016 10:00
VSAN and vCenter license are included in all order types. Customers can choose to apply existing vSphere Enterprise Plus licenses (the VLP option) or buy an appliance with a bundled vSphere Standard license.
ColinGallagher
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March 2nd, 2016 10:00
Re: VMware FT - Not supported with VxRail as it requires a separate, dedicated 10GbE link for FT. Our solution for active-active protection is stretch clustering available in Q2.
victorforde
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March 2nd, 2016 11:00
Colin are you 100% it is not vSphere Enterprise plus?
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March 2nd, 2016 12:00
Hi,
I would like to know what this function of 04 USB ports located on the front panel on VxRail?
CUE1
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March 2nd, 2016 14:00
VSOM is not provided or licensed with VxRail.
Willing
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March 3rd, 2016 09:00
Thanks CUE,
That answers the question respective to VSOM support. Regarding the vSphere Edition currently supplied with the appliance when the VLP option is NOT selected is what I would like to confirm.
Not to disregard what Colin has mentioned that it is vSphere Standard License but I would like to confirm if this is so. Reason being is that
1) The FAQ does not state what Edition of vSphere is included but only mentions that the VxRail Appliance ships with vSphere 6.0,VSAN 6.1,vRealize Log Insight and vCenter Server.
2) Also that when the VLP option is selected, in order to be eligible, the customer must have vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition licenses
With this in mind, what is the version of vSphere shipped with the appliance? and if it is indeed vSphere Standard Edition, is it a customized Standard Edition that includes some Enterprise functionality, e.g. DRS
Thanks
Anonymous
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March 4th, 2016 03:00
Hi,
At the second half of the year, this VxRail Appliance VLP (vSphere Loyalty Program) option should be the only option available?
I have worked in many customers , and this is a very relevant information for projects that will happen..
victorforde
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March 4th, 2016 08:00
Nothing to add other than this has been one of the best Ask the expert sessions since its inception. Congratulations and thanks to all involved
Victor
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RobertoAraujo1
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March 4th, 2016 08:00
Hi folks, just a friendly remider, today we will coclude this discussion. If you have additional follow up questions, would like more details, or have not let your network know about this debate you still have time to do it. Our Subject matter experts will be responding to questions until EOD today. Thanks for helping make this an interesting and informative debate for our community members and welcome again!
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March 4th, 2016 08:00
Hello Experts,
A customer has a quarter rack greenplum. The green plum brings 2 switches and 1 additional switch for management.
Customer wants to buy VXrail60 to deploy virtual application servers and have a doubt whether he can connect VXrail Appliance to the greenplum nodes. Is this possible?
Or do they need to add additional switches to connect VXrail and then uplink these switches to the greenplum switches.
Thanks
Virender Singh
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March 4th, 2016 08:00
Wanted to echo Victors comments! Great AskTheExpert series!!! Thanks Curtis and team!
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ColinGallagher
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March 4th, 2016 08:00
w1ll1ng and others:
VxRail models ordered with the “bundled” vSphere license (also know as the non-VLP option) come with a vSphere Standard license. This is a change from what was in the Sales Accreditation and also from VSPEX BLUE. This change allowed us to reduce the entry price for VxRail significantly for customer who do not need vSphere Enterprise+ making us more price competitive. Customers who want Enterprise functionality, in particular the ability to balance performance across the cluster (provided by VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler or DRS) need to choose the option to bring their own vSphere Enterprise+ licenses (also known as the VLP option). We have found that customers who want Enterprise+ functionality with vxRail commonly have existing ELA’s for vSphere and this option provides them the most cost effective way to do so. These customers could also leverage a vSphere Enterprise+ license purchased through their preferred channel partner or directly from VMware.
vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) functionality is enabled on all VxRail models in all cases as part of VMware Virtual SAN, regardless of the vSphere license type.