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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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ColinGallagher
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December 1st, 2016 07:00
Product documentation and procedures are only available when the product becomes generally available as Shannon mentioned.
yasichi
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December 1st, 2016 16:00
Thank you for the answer.
There is no information about rail kit in the spec sheet, but I'll wait for product documents released until GA.
yasichi
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December 1st, 2016 16:00
VxJustinKing, Thank you for the answer.
I received a notification e-mail with your answer on it, but there is no post on this thread and I cannot access the URL written on the e-mail due to access restriction to the URL.
yasichi
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December 1st, 2016 16:00
Let me ask ask about software upgrade and Log Insight.
Software upgrade including vSphere can be automatically done from VxRail Manager if vSphere ENT+ is used. Can I use this feature for upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0? or from 4.0 to later?
I have heard the customer cannot use the bundled Log Insight as it is used for support for VxRail 3.5. How about VxRail 4.0?
yasichi
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December 1st, 2016 17:00
The e-learning document mentions three node cluster do not support automated upgrade since failures cannot be tolerant during an upgrade.
When erasure cording is used, minimum number of nodes which automated upgrade supports is 5 nodes for RAID-5 and 7 nodes for RAID-6?
Anonymous
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December 1st, 2016 18:00
"Software upgrade including vSphere can be automatically done from VxRail Manager if vSphere ENT+ is used. Can I use this feature for upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0? or from 4.0 to later?"
You can upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0 (and beyond) using the automated upgrading provided the caveats you mentioned regarding vSphere Enterprise+ and the node count - minimum 4 nodes w/o erasure coding and 5 or 7 nodes using erasure coding in a RAID5 or RAID 6 configuration.
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December 1st, 2016 18:00
For the Dell PowerEdge-based VxRails (E/V/P/S Series) there are 3 options.
The detailed specs can be found here: http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/business/solutions/engineering-docs/en/Documents/rail-rack-matrix.pdf
On page 9 everything is spelled out. For the VxRail E Series - refer to the R630, For the V, P and S Series refer to the R730/R730xd.
yasichi
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December 1st, 2016 20:00
rick_reddy,
Thank you for the information for the rails and upgrade.
RobertoAraujo1
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December 6th, 2016 07:00
This Ask the Expert event has officially ended, but don't let that retract you from asking more questions. At this point our SMEs, after addressing all questions previosly posted, are still welcomed to answer and continue the discussion though not required. Here is where we ask our community members to chime in and assist other users if they're able to come up with accurate information. Additonally, you're welcome to post other questions unrelated to the topic of this ATE on the VxRail Appliance community.
Many thanks to our SMEs who selflessly made themselves available to answer questions. We also appreciate our community members for taking part of the discussion and ask so many interesting questions.
ATE events are made for your benefit as members of ECN. If you’re interested in pitching a topic or Subject Matter Experts we would be interested in hearing it. To learn more on what it takes to start an event please visit our Ask the Expert Program Space on ECN.
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moncy1
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March 28th, 2017 03:00
Hi Gurus,
I have had challenges with guided shutdown of the appliance , the past two attempts led in VM corruption. Could some one assist here.
regards
Moncy
Bill_Leslie
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March 28th, 2017 06:00
Moncy- Please open a support ticket for assistance.
moncy1
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March 28th, 2017 06:00
Hi Bill
I have opened the SR and the response is not great.
I would never recommend any of my customer to buy this appliance , since if I have to do shutdown it is going to take ages to complete . And if abrupt power disruption took place my vm would be in consistent state. This doesn’t happen with converged or any other Hyperconverged architecture.
Regards
Moncy
Bill_Leslie
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March 28th, 2017 07:00
Moncy- Please send me an email, william.leslie@dell.com, with SR# so I can investigate further with our support and engineering teams. More detail is needed about your specific case and will be best to handle directly rather than in this forum.
As a broader comment, there are many ways a VxRail cluster can be designed and implemented to ensure availability in the case of abrupt power disruption. One of those is utilizing fault domains and spreading nodes across racks, aisles or rooms in a data center. Further, stretch clusters can be utilized for an active-active design construct.
revlondsouza
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March 15th, 2018 09:00
Would like to get answers to 2 specific questions on existing VxRAIL Nodes :