Below is a summary of the session I did on VxRack Flex at Dell Technologies World.
- ScaleIO is now VxRack Flex OS
- Choice of Hyper-visor/bare metal
- High performance for applications and databases
- Server SAN / 2-layer architecture
- Multi-hypervisor / Bare Metal
- 14th Generation adds 2.3x IOPs, 250% more bandwidth
- Management and Monitoring
- VxFlex OS, VMware vCenter, Vision Intelligent Operations, ESRS
- Data Protection with DPS Suite, Avamar and Netowrker with Data Domain and RP4VMs
Hardware
- Dell PowerEdge 14th Gen
- Nexus 9K ToR
- 9K access switch
- 3k management
- VxRack Controller
- Completely redundant
- R640 and R740XD options
Software
- VxFlex OS (Formely ScaleIO)
- Choice of hypervisor
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