Dell and Broadcom jointly developed
VxRail using fully-integrated products to operate as a scalable, HCI solution. VxRail is managed
through the VMware vSphere Web Client and the VxRail Manager plug-in to provide streamlined
deployment and operations and extend the use of existing IT tools and processes.
Hardware overview
VxRail uses PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon Scalable or AMD EPYC processors. VxRail is
configurable with multiple compute, memory, storage, network, and graphics options to cover
a wide variety of applications and workloads. VxRail continuously adopts technologies like
NVMe storage, 100 Gb/s networking, and NVIDIA data center GPUs to deliver application
performance, availability, and diversity for future workloads.
Figure 1. Front view of VxRail node
For detailed information about VxRail, see the Dell VxRail Spec Sheet and the
Installation and Service Manuals.
Software overview
VxRail uses management software for hardware and maintenance tasks, and
software life-cycle management (LCM). VxRail incorporates supportability and serviceability
capabilities for ease of management.
The VxRail software bundle is preloaded on VxRail hardware and consists of the
following components:
VMware ESXi
VxRail Manager
VMware vCenter Server
VMware vSAN
VxRail networking
The building block for VxRail is the individual VxRail node. The basic physical
architecture of a VxRail cluster contains nodes that are connected through Ethernet
switches.
The following figure shows the back view of a VxRail E-Series and VE-Series
nodes: Figure 2. Back view of VxRail E-Series (top)
and VE-Series (below) nodes. Back view of VxRail E-Series (top) and VE-Series (below) nodes
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