VxRail: Overview &

what’s new for core

to edge to cloud
Chad Dunn
@VxChad
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Changing needs of workloads are driving cloud strategies
Cloud strategies must match the needs of each workload

Existing Workloads Cloud Native Workloads

Cost Reduction | Security | Reliability | Control Time to market | Innovation | Scale | Differentiation

+ SaaS

Modernize Utilize Hybrid Refactor Develop Replace

Infrastructure for Cloud
Optimize workloads Shift portions of Modify app, New cloud native Move to SaaS
using modern multi-tier app to new environment, on- app deployed version of
infrastructure public cloud​ prem or in the cloud on-prem & IaaS packaged app

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Hybrid cloud is the new standard for the enterprise

91% 83%

Cloud strategies inclusive Value consistency of infrastructure

of on-prem data centers from data center to cloud

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Hybrid cloud
Extend Modern Infrastructure and Operations Across Private Cloud, Public Cloud & Edge

Private Cloud Public Cloud Edge

Consistent Infrastructure | Consistent Operations

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 Cloud strategy Cloud Platform
platform Cloud strategy

ONE cloud strategy…

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Dell Technologies: VMware cloud foundation
The operational hub for the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform
Private cloud Public cloud Edge

Visibility Governance Operations Container Automation

management

Cloud Foundation
Intrinsic security

Lifecycle automation
VM Virtual machines Containers Kubernetes

Project dimension Hyper-converged Converged Dell Technologies

Manage Cloud VxRail VxBlock validated design

Services and expertise

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VxRail – your platform for edge, core, and cloud
Turnkey experience Lifecycle management Highly differentiated

Cloud Native Adoption

Driver

Dell Tech cloud platform:

Data Center-as-a-Service:
Automated and
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
accelerated hybrid cloud

Upgrade, refresh or expansion of a Enterprise Edge: Custom and guided

modern data center Starting at 2 nodes Hybrid cloud architecture

Core Edge Cloud

VxRail HCI System software

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 VXRAIL
FASTEST GROWING HCI SYSTEM1

Annual
Revenue2 >$1B

Growth
Rate 178%
# of
Customers 4,700+
1. For Q4 2019 year-over-year among TOP 10 product brands. IDC Converged Systems Tracker, Q4-2018, April 2019.
2. On an orders basis.
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 Core

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 Dell EMC VxRail
The fastest & simplest path to IT outcomes in
VMware environments

Turnkey experience Lifecycle management Highly differentiated

Flexible RESTful Platform One-click Serviceability Operational SmartFabric Advanced

Licensing APIs Innovation Upgrades Transparency Services analytics

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What is inside VxRail?

Powered by VxRail HCI Data protection

VMware vSAN System Software options

Flexible vSAN licensing VxRail Manager RecoverPoint for VMs

vSphere ready* VxRail ACE Early
Access VMware vSphere
(Analytical Consulting Engine) replication
vCenter server
RESTful APIs
vRealize log Insight
Automation & orchestration services
Backend services and
downstream connectors
*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses
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VxRail HCI System software
Dell EMC value-added capabilities for VMware HCI environments

New
VxRail Manager
Local cluster Management
Automation and Services VxRail ACE (Analytical
orchestration services Consulting Engine)
Full stack integration: LCM, Centralized data collection
first run, and upgrades and analytics platform

VxRail HCI System

Software
Backend services
downstream RESTful APIs
connectors Extensibility for cloud-scale
Simplified infrastructure solutions
deployment and management

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VxRail HCI System Software architecture
Orchestration for upstream and downstream connections, including local management services

• Local management
VxRail HCI System Software
features
Upstream
REST APIs – vCenter Plug-ins
APIs
– LCM
– Serviceability via eServices and
SRS
System Cluster
Local Settings
SSO Auth LCM Mgmt Marketplace
Operations
Logging/
Audit – Health alerts
Cluster

• Extensibility
Data vCenter Network
Mgmt Health Alerts Serviceability Collector Plugin
First Run
Mgmt

– Private orchestration APIs for

VMware SDDC solutions
VMware SmartFabric Service- Other Message
Early
Access – VxRail ACE (Cloud Based)
Backend & DB ability queue
Downstream
Connectors Services
– Open REST APIs for custom –
APIs aaS solutions (i.e. Puppet,
APIs Ansible)

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VxRail ACE (Analytical Consulting Engine)
Centralized data collection and infrastructure machine learning platform to help users make better decisions

Intelligently
Trusted plan for
Optimize Take action
advisor for upgrades
performance on insights
environment based on
consumption

Intuitive simplicity Insightful intelligence

• No additional HW/SW • Infrastructure Machine Learning
• Knowledge of 700+ common issues (IML)
• Health score for entire HCI stack • Continuous learning of
with global map view Dell EMC best practices
• Forecasting resource consumption
• One-click resolution*
No additional charge: Available to all VxRail customers running SRS
*Expected availability 2H 2019.
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VxRail ACE architecture
An element of VxRail HCI System software

VxRail Manager ACE

Cloud Platform Services
Data Collector

API/ SDK
Queries

Visuals

Remediation
Alerts
Backend Services

UI
DB Message Queue
Backend Services
VMware Connectors Serviceability IML
Repository

vSAN Cluster
eSRS

VxRail Data Lake

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VxRail ACE – health score details Trusted
advisor

Health score by
cluster

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VxRail ACE – physical storage summary Trusted
advisor

Storage capacity
details

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VxRail ACE – physical view with alert details Optimize
performance

Alert
details by
location

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VxRail ACE – physical view healthy clusters Optimize
performance

Alert
details by
location

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VxRail ACE – storage capacity prediction
Intelligently
Plan

Current capacity and

days until full

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VxRail ACE – anomaly detection Take
Action

Pinpointed anomaly
detection by user
average and usage

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 Edge

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Introducing VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
Dell Technologies Data Center-as-a-Service

VMs Containers

• Cloud infrastructure delivered as-a-service

Powered by
VMware Cloud Foundation on-premises
Enterprise
Services
• Fully-managed service
Data Protection

Automation & Operations Back-up • Hybrid control plane to provision and monitor
Disaster Recovery
resources
Cloud Bursting

Compute Storage Network

Storage • Built on VxRail – Dell EMC’s enterprise-
Intrinsic Security & Lifecycle Automation grade cloud platform
• OpEx licensing model

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Bringing together the best of VMware and Dell EMC
Dell Technologies Datacenter-as-a-Service: VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

• Peace of mind with VMware managed services

VxRail Hardware and Software Support Software and Hardware Support

– Trusted, VMware-based HCI

with data center expertise Hybrid cloud control plane
and knowledge Single pane of glass visibility Hybrid Cloud Control Plane
– Enterprise grade security
built-in VMware SDDC Infrastructure
– Resilient architecture Industry’s best virtual infrastructure Cloud Foundation
– World class supply chain
providing single point of Dell EMC PowerSwitch
control
Industry’s first automation and LCM integration
– Robust ecosystem portfolio
Dell EMC VxRail appliance
Fastest growing hyperconverged system*

Dell EMC supply chain

Award winning, global, single control point

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VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
Under the covers of the managed service

Hardware and Software Services Support

VMware Dell

(1) VeloCloud SD- Hybrid Cloud Control

WAN Appliance Onsite Deployment
Plane (HCCP) VMware
(2) Dell S4112 LCM
VxRail Manager

z
Content Delivery
Break-fix
Dimension

Dell
Project

(3) VxRail E- VeloCloud

Series Nodes Decommission /
(R640) WaveFront HW collection

DFS Financing ($/node/month)

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Delivering public cloud simplicity to core Data Centers
and edge locations
VMware Based Private and Hybrid Cloud Control
Public Clouds Plane

Edge location Edge location Core Data Center Edge location

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 Cloud

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Software defined cloud platform services
Based on enterprise-ready, market leading capabilities and HCI platform

VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail

Cloud Management (VMware vRealize Suite)

Self-service automation Intelligent operations Cloud costing

Compute Storage Networking VxRail Cloud Platform

(VMware vSphere) (VMware vSAN) (VMware NSX) (VxRail HCI Integrated System)

Run, manage, connect, and Flash-optimized, secure shared Create entire networks in software, Only HCI integrated system co-
secure applications in a common storage that delivers consistent embedded in the hypervisor layer, designed and developed with
operating environment, across performance and simple operations abstracted from the underlying VMware to seamlessly integrate with
clouds and devices from cloud to edge. physical hardware the robust VMware ecosystem

Lifecycle Automation
(VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager and VxRail Manager)

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 VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail
Flagship Dell Technologies Cloud Platform offering

on “The integration between VxRail Hyperconverged

appliances and Dell EMC/VMware Cloud stack (like
VMware Cloud Foundation) as a set of integrated
software, provides a roadmap for GraceKennedy to

Only Only optimally run our business-critical applications in

private and public environments.”
VMware Cloud Foundation Jointly engineered
infrastructure offering with integrated HCI system with - Nicole Case, Chief Information Officer,
full stack integration* VMware Cloud Foundation GraceKennedy Financial Group

ONE
Full stack Future proof for Available single-vendor Automated end-to-end Deployment
integration VMware cloud support lifecycle management flexibility

DellEMC.com/VxRail *Based on internal analysis in April 2019

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VMware Cloud Foundation for VxRail
Dell EMC and VMware jointly engineered integration features that simplify, streamline, and automate the
operations of your SDDC

Automated Cloud Foundation LCM

SDDC Manager with VxRail

Cloud Builder for Simplified Cloud Foundation

INTEGRATION
Deployment for VxRail
VxRail

Automated infrastructure LCM with

VxRail Manager SDDC Manager Integration

Dell EMC SmartFabric Simplified Dell VxRail & Network

OS10 Networking Infrastructure Day 2 Management

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Cloud Foundation on VxRail management
Easily deploy, configure, and lifecycle entire end to end software and hardware infrastructure stack

SDDC Manager
• Orchestrates the deployment, configuration, and
lifecycle management of vCenter, NSX, and
Patching Policy based
SDDC &
VM

vRealize Provisioning
vRealize Suite above the ESXi and vSAN layers of
VxRail
upgrades Suite
Manager • Unifies multiple VxRail clusters as workload
domains or as multi-cluster workload domains
NSX vCenter

Deployment Configuration

VxRail Manager
• Integrated with the SDDC Manager
• Used to deploy, configure, and lifecycle manage ESXi,
VxRail HCI HW
vSAN & HW firmware.
• Uses native VxRail Manager deployment processes
Manager • Uses SDDC Manager orchestrated to execute native
ESXi vSAN VxRail LCM
• Monitors health of hardware components and provides
remote service support

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Building a hybrid cloud with VMware cloud on AWS
Public cloud service sold, delivered and supported by VMware

Access to All
AWS Services
Region 1
On Prem Cloud Foundation

Cloud Region 2
vRealize
Management Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud on AWS AWS IoT AWS Amazon
Direct EC2
Connect
Cloud
Foundation on
Workload mobility Cloud
VxRail Region 3
between clouds Foundation Amazon AWS
Amazon
Cloud Foundation S3 RDS IAM
HCX

Operational consistency across the hybrid cloud

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 VxRail – your platform for core, edge, and cloud
Turnkey experience Lifecycle management Highly differentiated
3 yrs

4,700+
Customers

Launch
>$1B Cloud native adoption
driver
Lifetime revenue and
annual run-rate

Dell Tech Managed Service: Automated and

Project Dimension Accelerated hybrid cloud

Upgrade, refresh or expansion of a Enterprise edge: Custom and guided

modern data center Starting at 2 nodes Hybrid cloud architecture

Core Edge Cloud

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Next Steps
Attend related sessions and HoLs at Dell Technologies World

Topic Session 1 Session 2

VxRail: What’s New for Mon 4/29 Tues 4/30
Core to Edge to Cloud 1:30-2:30pm 1:30-2:30pm
Lando 4203 Delfino 4001A

VxRail: Technical Deep Mon 4/29 Thur 5/2

Dive into Accelerated Path 3-4pm 8:30-9:30am
to Hybrid Cloud Lando 4201A Zeno 4602

Hybrid Cloud as-a-

Service: A Worry Free
Tues 4/30 Visit the ISG Booth #235
12-1pm
Cloud Experience with Palazzo D
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Join the CONVERGED User Group
VxFlex: Family Overview Tues 4/30 Thurs 5/2
and What’s New 8:30-9:30am 10-11am
San Polo 3405

convergedusergroup.com/join
Follow @DellEMC_CI while at #DellTechWorld
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