Solution overview

Enterprises everywhere are increasingly adopting Converged Infrastructure (CI) as one of the best ways to rapidly accelerate IT transformation while adopting modern technologies, reducing risk, and simplifying operations. Dell EMC has enabled thousands of customers worldwide to simplify and modernize IT while allowing for digital transformation. If you are looking for an innovative way to deploy a modern IT infrastructure that delivers on real business benefits, allowing you to focus on your business and less on infrastructure management, the Dell EMC VxBlock System 1000 is for you.

A New Generation of Converged Infrastructure that Improves Flexibility, Efficiency, and Simplicity

A new generation of converged infrastructure that improves flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity | Solution overview

Lower cost of operations

61% 66% 52%More efficient IT operations

Less time spent keeping the lights on

34% 99% 640%Faster application

deployment life cycleLess unplanned

downtimeFive-year ROI

VxBlock Systems business benefits realized.Benefits based on an IDC Paper sponsored by Dell EMC. Results may vary.

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OverviewTraditional converged infrastructure systems often require you to choose different systems for different applications’ performance, capacity, and data-service needs. The VxBlock System 1000 breaks the boundaries of traditional CI by offering the industry’s first converged system designed for all workloads in the modern data center with:

• Unprecedented choice to mix, share, and adapt pools of market-leading storage, data protection, and compute resources for all workloads to maximize performance and utilization.

• Trusted life cycle assurance with a unique Release Certification Matrix (RCM) and a dynamic, customer- accessible RCM portal that provides proactive, customized recommendations to accelerate and simplify the infrastructure update process.

• A future-proof design to ensure that your system is able to support next-generation technologies to address extreme performance, scalability, and on-going simplicity requirements.

Benefits• Greater business agility offering an unprecedented choice of technologies suitable for all workloads in

one system.

• Improved data center efficiency by pooling and sharing resources to maximize utilization and ROI.

• Better operational simplicity, delivering a customized turnkey, engineered system experience.

Trends and challengesWhy is that important? Today, 84 percent of converged infrastructure users say that CI has made their IT environment more agile based on an ESG paper sponsored by Dell EMC. VxBlock System 1000 takes the complexities out of component integration, it simplifies upgrades and ongoing management, and it comes with single-call support for all components, including compute, network, and storage, virtualization, and data-protection requirements.

How it worksThe VxBlock System 1000 fully integrates industry-leading technologies—including Dell EMC all-flash storage technologies, Cisco UCS® M4 and M5 blade and rack servers, Cisco LAN and SAN networking, VMware virtualization, and Dell EMC data protection options—into one fully integrated system delivering a turnkey, engineered experience.

Systems Using a Logical Configuration Survey (LCS) to customize integration and deployment, all system elements are preintegrated, preconfigured, then tested and validated before shipping. Turnkey integration allows you to operate and manage your system as a single engineered product, rather than as individual, siloed components. Ongoing, component-level testing and qualification result in a drastically simplified update process. The result is significant time and resource savings throughout the system lifecycle, allowing you to focus your resources on business innovation.

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Dell EMC Data Protection for Converged Infrastructure simplifies backup, recovery, and failover of your VxBlock System 1000. Dell EMC offers the most advanced data deduplication, replication, and data protection technologies for achieving your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements.

VxBlock 1000 – #1 in converged, now all-in-1 system

General purposeworkloads

VxBlock 1000

Enterpriseworkloads

Traditional andmodern workloads

Mission criticalworkloads

Cisco UCSRack Servers

Cisco NexusLAN Switch

Dell EMCUnity

Dell EMCVMAX

Dell EMCPowerMax

Cisco UCSBlade Servers

Business Agility Right mix of resources and data servicesfor applications when you need them

Shared resource pools maximize utilization,eliminate stranded capacity, and increase ROI

Turnkey system experience frees you to innovate

Data Center Efficiency

Operational Simplicity

Cisco MDSSAN Switch

Dell EMCXtremIO X2

Dell EMCIsilon-Gen 6

Dell EMCVision

Dell EMCAMP

Dell EMCData Protection

Suite

Big data andanalytics

Cloud

ServicesDell EMC delivers fully integrated, 24/7 support with a single phone call. There’s never any finger-pointing between vendors, and you can always rely on our fully cross-trained team for a fast resolution to any problem. Dell EMC’s portfolio of services (including deployment, migration, and residency services) accelerates the speed of deployment and integration into your IT environment and minimizes downtime by ensuring that your software remains up to date and your hardware remains operational throughout the full product lifecycle.

“The VxBlock has enabled us to make tremendous positive changes. Our users are thrilled with the IT team’s responsiveness and with the accelerated application performance. It’s also changed the relationship between IT and the college. Business units now engage us to consult early in their decision process. We’ve become an integral partner in college business.” — Mark Wiseley, Senior Director of IT, Palmer College

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Component Details

Compute (Note: Mixing blade servers and rack servers in one system is supported.)

Chassis: Cisco UCS 5108

Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers: B200 M4, B260 M4, B420 M4, B460 M4, B200 M5, B480 M5

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers: C220 M4 , C240 M4, C220 M5, C240 M5

Cisco Fabric Extenders (FEX): Cisco UCS 2304 XP and Cisco Nexus 2348 UPQ

Cisco Fabric Interconnect (FI): Cisco UCS 6332-16UP

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC): 1225, 1227, 1340, 1380, 1385, 1387

Maximum number of servers per system

Cisco chassis: 50

Cisco blade servers: 560

Cisco rack mount servers:1120

Networking LAN: Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2

SAN: Cisco MDS 9148S, 9396S, 9706, 9710 (16G)

Management connectivity: Cisco Nexus 31108TC-V, Nexus 3232C

Storage (Note: Mixing multiple storage types in one system is supported.)

Dell EMC Unity All Flash 350F, 450F, 550F, 650F

Dell EMC PowerMax -2000 and 8000

Dell EMC VMAX All Flash 250F, 950F

Dell EMC XtremIO X2S, X2R

Dell EMC Isilon All Flash, Hybrid, and Archival F800, H600, H500, H400, A200, A2000

Virtualization VMware: vSphere Enterprise Plus (includes VDS), ESXi, vCenter Server (Note: Bare-metal deployments are also supported.)

Data protection Integrated Backup, Integrated Replication, and Integrated Business Continuity

Dell EMC: Avamar; NetWorker, Data Protection Search, Data Protection Advisor, Data Protection Central, CloudBoost, RecoverPoint and RP4VM; VPLEX

System management

Compute: AMP-VX for multisystem management includes four to eight rack servers, VMware vSAN and vRealize Log Insight, Avamar Virtual Edition that is integrated with a Data Domain 6300 for protection of the AMP-VX Software:

AMP-3S for single management support only, includes two to six rack servers and a Dell EMC Unity hybride storage array.

Software: Dell EMCVision software, Unisphere, InsightIQ (Isilon), Secure Remote Services (ESRS), Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) for LAN and SAN, Cisco UCS Manager and PowerPath.

Cabinet PowerPath Intelligent Physical Cabinet Solution from Dell EMC

Essentials• Greater business agility offering an unprecedented choice of technologies suitable for all workloads in

one system.

• Improved data center efficiency by pooling and sharing resources to maximize utilization and ROI.

• Better operational simplicity, delivering a customized turnkey, engineered system experience.

VxBlock System 1000 support specification summary

The Cisco AdvantageVxBlock 1000 integrates Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus with Dell EMC storage which contributes to its leadership position in converged infrastructure.

• Over 4,000 global installations host mission-critical workloads on Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure.

• The most demanding industries count on VxBlock systems, including 8 out of 10 largest US financial sector.

By seamlessly integrating enterprise-class compute, network, storage and virtualization technologies from industry leaders Cisco, Dell EMC, and VMware, VxBlock 1000 delivers the world’s most advanced converged infrastructure: engineered, manufactured, managed, supported, and sustained as one.

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