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XC Appliances

Validated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for Nutanix hybrid cloud deployments.
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Simplified hybrid cloud

Experience the ease of managing both private and public cloud environments through a singular control plane. This turnkey experience seamlessly extends your cloud capabilities with unified data management. Facilitate accessibility and fluid mobility across various cloud platforms.

Streamlined operations

Increase productivity across your hybrid cloud with self-service, automation, and centralized rolebased governance. You can focus on driving business outcomes, knowing that operations including enhancements and updates are streamlined with minimal downtime, requiring only one reboot for updates.

Optimized performance

Harness the power of built-in intelligence to ensure your applications perform optimally. With AI and adaptive machine learning at the core, resource planning becomes data-driven and automated. This modern, flexible, and secure platform accelerates your applications using a robust distributed cloud architecture.

Flexible solutions

Configure your solution with one of six platforms, each optimized for the specific requirements and challenges of your workloads. Bundle infrastructure and licensing with XC Plus or choose XC Core for a hardware-only solution with pre-installed Nutanix software.

Dell XC solutions for Nutanix

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PowerEdge R6715
XC6715
Simple HCI workloads and medium-density virtualization
Single AMD EPYC Gen 5 processor with up 160 cores
64GB to 6144GB
Up to 245 TB
N/A
Up to three SW NVIDIA L4
PowerEdge R770
XC770
Virtualization and cloud-native workloads
Two Intel Xeon 6 processors with up to 86 cores per processor
64GB to 8192GB
Up to 245 TB
N/A
Up to four SW NVIDIA L4 or pp to two DW NVIDIA A16/L40S/H100N
PowerEdge R670
XC670
Medium-density virtualization and cloud-native applications
Single or Two Intel Xeon 6 processors with up to 86 cores
64GB to 8192GB
Up to 245 TB
N/A
Up to three NVIDIA L4
XC660xs
Simple HCI workloads, ROBO, and small office
Two 5th gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors; each up to 32 cores
32 GB to 1024 GB
Up to 55.36 TB
HBA355
N/A
XC660
Virtual Desktop integration (VDI), virtualisation, testing and development, and dense data analytics
Two 5th gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors; each up to 52 cores
128 GB to 4096 GB
Up to 184.32 TB
HBA355
Up to 3x NVIDIA L4
XC760
High-performance databases and storage-heavy enterprise applications
Two 5th gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors; each up to 56 cores
128 GB to 4096 GB
Up to 368.64 TB
HBA355i
Up to two DW (A16, A30, A40, A800) or up to two SW (L4)
XC7625
High-performance databases, storage-heavy enterprise applications, and virtualisation
Two 4th gen AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors; each up to 128 cores
128 GB to 3072 GB
Up to 368.64 TB
HBA355i
Up to two DW (A16, A30, A40, A800) or up to two SW (L4)
PowerEdge R7725 (AMD Server)
XC7725
High-performance computing (HPC), AI/ML inference, and virtualization/VDI
Dual AMD EPYC Gen 5 processor with up 192 cores
64 GB to 6144 GB
Up to 245 TB
N/A
Up to two DW or up to six SW

Models
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Processor
Memory
Storage Capacity

Storage Controller Open for additional information on No controller for XC760-24N

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PowerEdge R6715
XC6715
Simple HCI workloads and medium-density virtualization
Single AMD EPYC Gen 5 processor with up 160 cores
64GB to 6144GB
Up to 245 TB
N/A
Up to three SW NVIDIA L4
PowerEdge R770
XC770
Virtualization and cloud-native workloads
Two Intel Xeon 6 processors with up to 86 cores per processor
64GB to 8192GB
Up to 245 TB
N/A
Up to four SW NVIDIA L4 or pp to two DW NVIDIA A16/L40S/H100N
PowerEdge R670
XC670
Medium-density virtualization and cloud-native applications
Single or Two Intel Xeon 6 processors with up to 86 cores
64GB to 8192GB
Up to 245 TB
N/A
Up to three NVIDIA L4
XC660xs
Simple HCI workloads, ROBO, and small office
Two 5th gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors; each up to 32 cores
32 GB to 1024 GB
Up to 55.36 TB
HBA355
N/A
XC660
Virtual Desktop integration (VDI), virtualisation, testing and development, and dense data analytics
Two 5th gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors; each up to 52 cores
128 GB to 4096 GB
Up to 184.32 TB
HBA355
Up to 3x NVIDIA L4
XC760
High-performance databases and storage-heavy enterprise applications
Two 5th gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors; each up to 56 cores
128 GB to 4096 GB
Up to 368.64 TB
HBA355i
Up to two DW (A16, A30, A40, A800) or up to two SW (L4)
XC7625
High-performance databases, storage-heavy enterprise applications, and virtualisation
Two 4th gen AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors; each up to 128 cores
128 GB to 3072 GB
Up to 368.64 TB
HBA355i
Up to two DW (A16, A30, A40, A800) or up to two SW (L4)
PowerEdge R7725 (AMD Server)
XC7725
High-performance computing (HPC), AI/ML inference, and virtualization/VDI
Dual AMD EPYC Gen 5 processor with up 192 cores
64 GB to 6144 GB
Up to 245 TB
N/A
Up to two DW or up to six SW
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FAQs

XC Appliances are a family of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions that combine Dell PowerEdge server technology with Nutanix software. They deliver a fully integrated, scalable, and easy-to-manage platform for virtualized workloads and private or hybrid cloud deployments. This simplifies data center operations and helps you innovate with confidence.
The primary difference lies in the inclusion of software licensing. XC Plus appliances come with the Nutanix software license, delivering a turnkey solution. XC Core appliances provide validated Dell hardware, allowing customers to use their existing Nutanix software licenses for greater flexibility.
XC Appliances are engineered and factory-integrated with Nutanix software, ensuring seamless compatibility and optimized performance right out of the box. This tight integration provides a single point of contact for support on the entire solution, from the hardware to the HCI software stack, streamlining issue resolution.
The XC Plus architecture is built on trusted Dell PowerEdge servers, which are pre-configured with Nutanix Cloud Platform software. This creates a distributed platform where all compute and storage resources are pooled and managed as a single entity. The architecture is designed for high availability and linear scalability, allowing your environment to grow without performance bottlenecks.
Both XC Plus and XC Core are excellent for migrating Hyper-V virtual machines, as they both support the Hyper-V hypervisor. The best choice depends on your licensing preference; choose XC Plus for an all-in-one solution with software licenses included.
XC Appliances offer hypervisor flexibility to fit your IT strategy. They support the native Nutanix AHV. This allows you to run your applications on your preferred virtualization platform while benefiting from the underlying HCI architecture.
Yes, Oracle Linux is supported as a guest operating system running inside virtual machines on Dell XC Appliances. You can confidently run your Oracle workloads and other enterprise applications within a VM on Nutanix AHV.
Dell XC solutions are versatile and optimized for a wide range of business-critical workloads. They excel at running virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), enterprise applications like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases, big data analytics, and remote office/branch office (ROBO) deployments.
XC solutions, powered by Nutanix, provide a seamless foundation for your hybrid cloud strategy by offering consistent operations across on-premises and public cloud environments. Features like Nutanix Clusters (NC2) allow you to extend your data center to the public cloud, simplifying application mobility and disaster recovery without re-architecting your applications.
Scaling a Dell XC cluster is designed to be simple and non-disruptive. You can scale out by adding new XC appliances to the cluster, and the Nutanix software automatically discovers the new nodes and incorporates their resources into the pool. This allows for predictable, pay-as-you-grow expansion with no downtime.
The primary management tool for XC solutions is Nutanix Prism, which provides a single, intuitive interface for managing the entire infrastructure stack. From Prism, you can manage VMs, storage, and cluster operations, monitor system health, and perform upgrades, dramatically simplifying day-to-day IT administration.
XC Appliances inherit robust security features from both the PowerEdge server platform and the Nutanix software stack. This includes a cyber-resilient architecture with features like data-at-rest encryption, secure boot, and role-based access control. Nutanix Flow provides advanced networking and microsegmentation to secure applications from internal and external threats.
Dell provides a streamlined, single point of contact for support on the entire XC solution, including both the Dell hardware and the Nutanix software. This collaborative support model ensures that you can resolve issues quickly and efficiently without being passed between different vendors, giving you confidence in your infrastructure.