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Ask the Experts: Introducing the new Dell EMC VxRail™ Appliance
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Welcome to our Ask the Experts conversations about the new Dell EMC VxRail™ Appliance
The Dell EMC VxRail Appliance Family, the industry’s only HCI appliances specifically developed and fully optimized for VMware environments, now have configurations powered by the latest Intel Broadwell Platforms, VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN technologies and based on PowerEdge servers. The new Dell EMC VxRail Appliances feature 40% more CPU performance for the same price, increased flexibility and scalability with more configurations than before, all-flash nodes equipped with 2x more storage and a new 3-node entry point that is 25% less expensive.
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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 Dell EMC VxRail Appliance offers:
Flexibility and choice: A wide range of platforms and configure-to-order hardware are designed to address any use case. The addition of Dell PowerEdge servers expands the portfolio to deliver GPU hardware, dense storage and high performance computing options, allowing you the flexibility to choose the VxRail Appliance that is best for your need. Single node scaling and storage capacity expansion provide a predictable, “pay-as-you-grow” approach for future scale up and out as your business and user requirements evolve.
Scalability and performance: Based on VMware vSphere and vSAN software, and built with new Intel Broadwell processors, the VxRail Appliance allows you to start small and grow, scaling capacity and performance easily and non-disruptively. All-flash VxRail Appliances include efficient and in-line deduplication, compression, and erasure coding. With these enterprise-class data services VxRail delivers high performance all-flash with increased usable capacity.
Usability and management: VxRail Appliance provides existing VMware customers an experience with which they are already familiar. VM management through vCenter Server, and IT and Cloud automation with vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation lets you seamlessly integrate VxRail into your existing data center infrastructure.
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Meet Your Experts:
| 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 an MBA from UC Berkeley. |
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| Product Marketing Manager Shannon is a Product Marketing Manager for Hyper-Converged Appliances at Dell EMC. 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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| 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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| Product Manager – VxRail Richard has been part of the VxRail Product Management team for almost two years, and is currently the lead Product Manager for VxRail 4.0. He has been with Dell EMC for three years, where 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 Rick leads Product Management for the VxRail Hyper-Converged Appliances. Prior to this role he led Strategic Alliances for VxRail and the VSPEX reference architecture programs. He has over 25 years of experience as a vendor in high-technology companies with roles ranging from engineering, sales, marketing and business development. |
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| Hyper-converged Specialist, CPSD Aaron is a technical field consultant for VxRail and VxRack covering Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas (based out of Dallas, TX). He has over 10 years of experience in technical sales focused on server/storage/virtualized solutions. |
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| Jeremy Merrill Global Principal Consultant, HCIA Jeremy has over 15 years of 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 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 Dell EMC Worldwide Enablement and Engineering Team for the VxRail family. |
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Justin King Senior Business Development Manager – Hyper Converged Infrastructure Solutions Justin has been involved with the IT industry for over 19 years where he has held various roles and responsibilities ranging from administration duties to architecting critical business solutions. Since joining VMware in 2009, Justin has supported sales teams, evangelized multiple VMware technologies as a product specialist, installed confidence with the VMware's SDDC Suite by designing and testing end to end reference architectures (VVDs) and currently seeks out business opportunities delivering business solutions on Dell EMC VxRail appliances. Justin is a native Brit residing in the state of Texas. Follow him on twitter @VxJustinKing |
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Jeremy.Merrill
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November 14th, 2016 12:00
Kawaman,
Need some additional information. For both of these scenarios would you want to use the VCSA with VxRail or tie into an existing vCenter environment you already have?
VxJustinKing
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November 14th, 2016 16:00
so a couple of points to help you
you can mix the various series in a single VxRail environment but two rules apply. One, the first 4 nodes have to be the same series and then you can add an alternative series into the same cluster and two, regardless of series selected they all have to be hybrid or all flash, you can not mix storage types within the same VxRail environment unless they are separate clusters.
You can have separate workload clusters but they will need to be managed by an external vCenter Server (ie not the optionally included vCenter server). This can be the same vCenter server instance for both clusters or each cluster deployed with its own vCenter server.
Enhanced Linked mode requires an external vCenter server with an external PSC, you can connect multiple vCenter servers to the same PSC or alternatively link multiple PSC's to provide enhanced linked mode
Hope that helps
kwmt
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November 14th, 2016 20:00
Hi Jeremy,
I am considering the following four scenarios.
Scenario 1.
One vCenter and separated clusters.
Scenario 2.
One PSC and Linked mode vCenters.
Scenario 3.
External vCSA and separated clusters, one VxRail Manager.
Scenario 4.
External vCSA and separated clusters, separated VxRail Managers.
kwmt
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November 15th, 2016 07:00
Hi Justin,
Thank you for your advice. but VxRail 4.0 cluster design and limitation is very complexity.
Is not there the cluster and network design guid line of VxRail 4.0.
VxJustinKing
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November 15th, 2016 15:00
Kawaman, We do not have a specific VxRail guide but you can utilize the vSAN 6.2 Cluster design and Network design guides available. Not all of the configuration guidance is supported with VxRail but I'll be more than happy to answer your questions that may come from reviewing these
VMware® Virtual SAN™ 6.2 Design and Sizing Guide
http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsan/virtual-san-6.2-design-and-sizing-guide.p…
VMware ® Virtual SAN™ 6.2 Network Design Guide
http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/whitepaper/products/vsan/vmware-virtual-san-network-des…
VxRail 4.0 ships with vSAN 6.2 Ent
yasichi
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November 15th, 2016 17:00
Hi kawaman and VxJustinKing,
Is a VSAN cluster created for each Series when multiple Series are in a single VxRail cluster?
Saadallah_08c627
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November 15th, 2016 22:00
Just tried to upgrade to vSphere 6.5 to leverage VSAN 6.5 never the less VxRail VIBS are conflicting thus cannot upgrade. Is VxRail release 4.0 VIBs going to support vSphere 6.5 ? Any release date for upgrading VxRail 3.5 to 4.0 ?
Thanks.
VxJustinKing
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November 16th, 2016 08:00
VxRail does not support the vSphere 6.5 release at this time and any attempts to upgrade an existing VxRail can void your support coverage.. We are planning to provide this upgrade path and ship new VxRail appliances with vSphere 6.5 in the new year. VxRail 4.0 will continue to ship with vSphere 6.0U2 until vSphere 6.5 is supported..
Jeremy.Merrill
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November 16th, 2016 10:00
No, this will all be in a single cluster with a single datastore.
yasichi
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November 16th, 2016 16:00
Thank you for the answer.
Are there ways that the specified VMs and VMDKs work only on one specified Series when multiple Series are in a cluster?
yasichi
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November 16th, 2016 17:00
I found E-learning "VxRail 4.0 Recorded Knowledge Transfer".
- Total NIC ports are 6x10GbE+4x1GbE (2x10GbE+2x1GbE + 4x10GbE+2x1GbE)?(see Page 6)
- Can Error and Critical events of SSD Wearing monitering be reported via e-mail or SNMP trap? (see page 80)
- Does upgrade from version 3.5 to 4.0 remove all data? Cannot do data-in-place-upgrade?(see page 130)
yasichi
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November 16th, 2016 20:00
According to E-learning "VxRail Appliance 4.0 Technical Differences",
it mentions "Options to add an additional 2 x 10Gb NIC card". (page 27)
Upgrade is Data In-Place.(page 30)
Which document is correct?
Also, Can customer upgrade DIMM, GPU, CPU and 2x10GbE on Dell model? (Page 37)
For example, can customer replace 16GB DIMM with 32GB DIMM or 8core CPU with 12core CPU, etc.?
Anonymous
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November 21st, 2016 08:00
Re "Total NIC ports are 6x10GbE+4x1GbE (2x10GbE+2x1GbE + 4x10GbE+2x1GbE)?(see Page 6)"
The network options for E, V, P, and S Series are one Network Daughter Card (NDC) with 2x10GbE + 2x1GbE, plus one optional PCIe NIC with 2x10GbE. Please note that the optional PCIe NIC is not available on E460 systems with single processor (single socket) configurations).
Anonymous
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November 21st, 2016 09:00
Re. "Can customer upgrade DIMM, GPU, CPU and 2x10GbE on Dell model? (Page 37)"
Upgrades of VxRail 4.0 systems are not available yet. Upgrades of G410 and G410 are expected to be available in the January 7th MyQuotes release. G-Series upgrades will be the same as the upgrades available for VxRail 3.5 today:
Add a node to an appliance, add capacity drives to nodes, replace cache SSDs with higher capacity cache SSDs, add optics.
We're hoping to add upgrades of Dell PowerEdge VxRail models to MyQuote in February, but that is far from certain at this time. The expectation (still to be committed) is that we will support the following upgrades:
- Add or replace DIMMs
- Add capacity drives
- Add disk groups
- Replace cache SSDs with larger cache SSDs
- Add PCIe NIC
- Add or replace GPUs on V470 and V470F
We will not support adding or replacing CPUs.
yasichi
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November 21st, 2016 16:00
Richard,
Thank you for the detailed information for NIC and parts upgrades.