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VxRail Technical Overview
Updated – July 11, 2023

Notes to presenter
This is a technical overview intended to provide a technical introduction to the core

VxRail product offering. Please use this slide deck as a framework to build your
presentation for your audience. It does not go in-depth into every topic. Consider
incorporating content from other VxRail technical resources, as needed.
• This presentation is designed to complement the VxRail Customer presentation, thus
assumes some level of VxRail and vSAN knowledge.
• For the latest version of this presentation, download from here.
• Additional VxRail technical resources:
– Technical Reference Deck
– Solutions and Use Cases reference deck
– VMware Validated Design with VxRail
– VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail
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Major changes in this revision
• Inclusion of latest generation VxRail: VP-760 and VE-660

• Updates to Lifecycle Management section
• Updates to Dynamic AppsON solution in Deployment Flexibility section

Table of Contents
• Why VxRail?
• Value of VxRail (To Presenter: focus on this section to showcase differentiators)
– Simplifying IT operations
– Deployment flexibility
– Extensibility to accelerate innovation with REST API
• VxRail Overview (To Presenter: supplement as needed for additional product details)
– Hardware portfolio and configuration flexibility
– Data protection
– Networking

Why VxRail?
VXRAIL
T H E O N LY J O I N T LY E N G I N E E R E D H C I S Y S T E M W I T H V M W A R E ,
FOR VMWARE, TO ENHANCE VMWARE
18.8K+ $10B 34% 267K+

Customers Revenue Share* Nodes
CLOUD CORE EDGE
VDI Video SAP HANA AI/ML Kubernetes

Analysis
*Source: IDC Quarterly Converged Tracker, Q2 2022. Hyperconverged Systems product category (total Dell Technologies HCI)
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HCI trends and continued innovation
DATA CENTER EDGE COMPUTING HYBRID CLOUD CLOUD-NATIVE
MODERNIZATION GROWTH ACCELERATION ADOPTION DRIVER
More AI/ML and IoT Delivers consistent HCI will power

Continues to simplify and driving compute at edge infrastructure and cloud native and
transform IT operations locations operations container adoption
CONTINUED INNOVATION
New consumption models | New data services | AI / ML for self-diagnosis
Next-gen processors | NVMe | 5G | 100GbE | Enhanced serviceability

Expand your landscape
Satellite
node
2 & 3 Node
Edge clusters
vSAN OSA Dynamic vSAN ESA
NEW
clusters AppsON clusters
VD-4000
DPU Node PowerStore

VCF on VxRail
remote Edge
Edge-validated
designs
Cloud Core Edge
VxRail HCI System Software automated orchestration
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Value of VxRail
Full Lifecycle
Management
VxRail HCI Continuously
Validated States
System Software AIOps Cloud-
Based
Management
Management &
analytics RESTful
Configuration at scale APIs
Portal Cloud extensibility
Self-Deployment to support broad
use cases VxRail
Manager
Fully integrated
vCenter
Single Point experience
Integrated, value added software Node Image
of Contact
Management
for automation, orchestration and Reimage and
Simplified
management
lifecycle management redeploy
Ecosystem & support
Connectors
Tight integration
across the
Electronic entire stack
Compatibility
Matrix
Validates
compliance of
configurations
Simplifying IT operations

Lifecycle management with VxRail
Overburdened IT staff Disruption to business Budget efficiencies
Lower costs by 47%

compared to a similar public
Up to Reduce downtime with up to cloud solution2
60% improved efficiency 88% fewer unplanned
of IT infrastructure team1 outages1 52% lower cost of
operations compared with
refreshing legacy environments1
1“Delivering Efficient Business Expansion with Dell EMC VMware-Based HCI,” IDC whitepaper sponsored by Dell EMC, October 2018.
2“The Cost of Using the Public Cloud,” Evaluator Group, Jan 2019.
Testing the validated state
Example upgrade cadence
SOFTWARE
VxRail 7.0.320
ESXi 7.0 U3c
vSAN 7.0 U3c
HARDWARE
7.0.350
BIOS 1.3.8 (CNDYW) Choose your 7.0 U3c
or
HBA355i FW: 17.15.08.00 (4CJY9) Driver: 19.00.03.00
validated state 7.0 U3c
PERC H755 FW: 52.16.1-4074 (KVYMT) Driver: 7.716.03.00
HBA330 Adapter FW: 16.17.00.05 (TF1M6) Driver: 17.00.02.00
Intel X710 DP/QP FW: 20.5.13 (M20T0) Driver: 2.1.5.0 (Ethernet)
Intel X710-T2L DP FW: 20.5.13 (M20T0) Driver: 2.1.5.0 (Ethernet)
Intel X710-T4L QP FW: 20.5.13 (M20T0) Driver: 2.1.5.0 (Ethernet)

Seamlessly 7.0.410
Intel E810-XXV DP FW: 20.5.13 (NVXX9) Driver: 1.6.2 (Ethernet) bypass interim or 7.0 U3i
BCM 57412 DP FW: 21.85.21.91 (YPXWJ) Driver: 218.0.21.0 (RDMA) updates 7.0 U3i
BCM 57414 DP FW: 21.85.21.91 (YPXWJ) Driver: 218.0.21.0 (RDMA)
Mellanox CX-6 DP FW: 22.31.10.14 (0WF35) Driver: 4.21.71.101 (RoCE)
iDRAC 5.00.10.20 (YCFHY)
iSM 4.1.0 (C8YW2)

Document 8.0.000
PM 1.0, 1.1 (E660/F, P/V670F) 1.0 (E660N, S670) compliance or 8.0
BOSS-S1 2.5.1.13.3024 (3P39V) E660/F/N, P/V670F automatically 8.0
BOSS-S2 2.5.13.4008 (9MVC3P)
Expander backplane 1.17 (GKRX8) P/V670F

Automate lifecycle management
Traditional, manual approach vSAN Ready Node VxRail
• Define the version set to update • Build desired state from set of • Choose your Validated State and go!
system available components
• Perform your own interoperability • Determine the best option and
testing sequence to run in their cluster
• Acquire update files separately • Package the VMware software bundle
• Upgrade components separately & acquire firmware bits
within approved change windows
• Rely on multiple vendors for support

Unique benefits of VxRail LCM
How we ensure your continuously validated state
TEST
800,000
test hours
Automated, non-disruptive
per release upgrades across the fully integrated
HW & SW stack
SERVICE OPTIMIZE
Single point Full stack intel Mix heterogenous node types and
of support, to get to next
all the time validated state
generations to meet any workload
requirement
7.0.100
7.0.410
7.0.370
7.0.320
7.0.240
7.0.200
Bypass interim patches and
releases
SEQUENCE ANALYZE
Pre-determines
Collect insights,
optimal order
tailored upgrades
of components

VxRail-driven LCM with Continuously Validated States
• Pre-update cluster health check

• Update advisor report for
Prepare
centralized planning information
• Compliance checker for an • Single update bundle to upload
• Any-to-any software update
into desire state image
update paths
• Non-disruptive hardware
changes to cluster Maintain
• Support mixing of node Cluster
models and generations Integrity
• Dell single source of
support
• Optionally schedule the cluster

Execute update
an update • Include non-VxRail managed
components in the update cycle
SaaS multi-cluster management benefits
Easily
Integration with access
from a web
CloudIQ
portal
Provide inventory,
Centralize
monitoring
capacity, and
performance reporting
Quickly view health Simplify
health
score of environment reporting
Perform
lifecycle Pre-update health
management checks, update bundle
operations at
download, cluster
scale
updates

SaaS multi-cluster management functionality
• Simplified health score

• Cluster inventory
• Capacity planning
• LCM operations

Deployment flexibility

Flexibility for your VxRail cluster deployment
vCenter Server deployment Base networking Management at scale
Licensed vCenter Server on Deploy cluster with new VDS Manage multiple VxRail
VxRail cluster Use customer-supplied VDS clusters with VxRail-managed
vCenter
Off-cluster VxRail-managed Configure network
vCenter Server redundancy and link Enhanced Link Mode support
Customer-managed vCenter aggregation
Server Support multiple VDS for
traffic separation

New VxRail use cases
VxRail HCI System Software
Expanded datacenter Proven enhancement Edge computing

workloads of VMware outcomes
Dynamic nodes with Distributed edge sites using
enterprise storage single-node or rugged nodes
vSAN Express Storage One operating model Smaller footprint and
Architecture lower cost
new use cases
SmartDPUs with vSphere Simplified management
Distributed Services Engine

Addressing more workload types
• Scale compute and storage asymmetrically in VMware environments

• Leverage storage array features for enterprise-level environments
• Accelerate infrastructure services with SmartDPUs
• Tap into the powers of multi-core, higher memory, and NVMe with vSAN ESA

VxRail dynamic nodes
Flexibly scale storage to optimize VMware Compute-only nodes with no vSAN
HCI deployments license.
Flexible primary storage options –

VMware vSAN HCI Mesh or Dell external
storage arrays.
Scale compute independent of storage.
VxRail HCI System Software with

dynamic nodes for VxRail LCM
experience.
VE-660, VP-760, E660F, P670F, and

V670F models with no support for internal
storage.
DYNAMIC APPSON
VXRAIL DYNAMIC NODES WITH POWERSTORE
Scale compute and storage

PowerStore T
asymmetrically in your
VMware environments
Continue to leverage
storage array features
Integrated PowerStore
lifecycle management on
VxRail Manager

VxRail satellite nodes
Low-cost single node extension for existing Single-node deployment managed by
VxRail customers a VxRail cluster with vSAN.
Smaller footprint and lower cost than

2-node; no vSAN licensing costs.
Includes onboard RAID controller for

locally protected storage.
VxRail HCI System Software for a

consistent and secure operating
experience.
VE-660, VP-760, E660, E660F, V670F

and VD-4000 models with support for
all hardware options.
Extending VxRail simplicity
to the edge
Site 1
Drive IT consistency across
distributed edge sites.
Site 2
Reduce VxRail footprint for
Datacenter light application workload
that can tolerate downtime.
Site 3
Centrally managed sites
with limited IT support.
Site 4

Extensibility for innovation with
REST API

Why VxRail API?
Primary use cases and benefits
• Data Center automation at scale / Benefits resulting in OPEX savings:

Service Providers
• Enables integration with existing IT environment, • Ease of integration
processes, and automation/orchestration tools
• Automating tasks / reducing manual labor
• Infrastructure as Code initiatives
• Provision and manage IT infrastructure through • Driving innovation and more value from existing
the use of code, rather than through operating investments
procedures and manual processes
• Greater agility
• Automation at the Edge
• Scripted deployments, network optimized operations • Configuration consistency /
(e.g., LCM), and health monitoring of VxRail minimizing risks related to human labor
infrastructure in remote/edge locations

VxRail API
Empowering customers to automate processes and streamline operations
Simple to use Powerful

Swagger integration – explore and Offers dozens of API calls for essential
experiment using a web browser operations such as automated LCM
PowerShell integration – consume using a Growing capabilities with every new release
familiar CLI interface
Extensible
Designed to complement REST APIs from VMware
(e.g., vSphere Automation API, VCF on VxRail API)
offering similar look and feel and vast capabilities

Powerful
VxRail API use cases for a fully integrated HCI appliance
• System information queries • Day 2 cluster operations

• Remote collection of inventory information • Remote, simultaneous execution of LCM upgrades
• Remote collection of system status and health data, at scale
including log bundles • Graceful cluster shutdown for data consistency
• Integration with Dell EMC Support features • Cluster expansion, node removal
•Day 1 cluster deployment •Much more possibilities via Extensibility

• VxRail cluster deployment • VMware vSphere automation, workload provisioning
• Configure VxRail Manager with a static IP address and management
before VxRail cluster deployment • VCF on VxRail automation
• vCenter externalization

VxRail Overview
What is inside VxRail?
VMware Software VxRail HCI System Software Data Protection Options
• Choice of vSAN • VxRail Manager • RecoverPoint for VMs

• vCenter Server • SaaS multi-cluster management • VMware vSphere
• vRealize Suite Ready • RESTful API Replication
• vSphere Ready* • Automation and orchestration services

• Tanzu Basic (optional) • Ecosystem connectors
• VMware Cloud Foundation (optional)
*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses

Licensing flexibility for your VxRail cluster deployment
Perpetually Licensed
vSphere/vSAN With vSphere-S/vSAN-S With vSphere+/vSAN+ With APEX Private APEX Flex
VxRail VxRail VxRail Cloud On Demand
Upfront payment for Consume on-premises Metered subscription Instance-based Gain immediate
your HCI infrastructure VMware HCI OPEX model offerings designed for access
infrastructure software connected to VMware workloads, available to buffer capacity as
with a traditional via a term subscription Cloud Services as APEX Private Cloud needed, while only
CAPEX consumption OPEX model through the Dell APEX paying for the
model Console. technology you use

VxRail on latest generation Dell servers
VE-660 VP-760
Our everything platform Storage dense Accelerator optimized
R660 R760 R760

10 x 2.5” drives 28 x 2.5” drives 24 x 2.5” drives
All-Flash / Hybrid All-Flash All-Flash
Single or dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Gen 4 Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Gen 4 Single or dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Gen 4
10GbE or 25GbE OCP3 10GbE or 25GbE OCP3 10GbE or 25GbE OCP3
Up to 2 x PCIe Gen5 slots Up to 2x PCIe Gen 4 slots Up to 4 x PCIe Gen 4 slots

Up to 1 x PCIe Gen4 slots Up to 2x PCIe Gen 5 slots Up to 4 x PCIe Gen 5 slots
Three single wide GPUs GPUs not available Six single wide GPUs or
Two double wide GPUs
10GbE/25GbE/100GbE PCIe 10GbE/25GbE/100GbE PCIe 10GbE/25GbE/100GbE PCIe

NVMe/SAS cache NVMe/SAS cache NVMe/SAS cache
SAS/SATA Capacity SAS/SATA capacity SAS/SATA capacity
FC HBA FC HBA FC HBA

SmartDPU Ready SmartDPU Ready SmartDPU Ready

VxRail on 15th generation Dell servers
E660/F E660N P670F P670N V670F
Our everything platforms Performance focused platforms Optimized for acceleration
R750
R650 R650 R750 R750
28 x 2.5” drives (dual socket)
10 x 2.5” drives 10 x 2.5” drives 24 x 2.5” drives 24 x 2.5” drives
24 x 2.5” drives (single socket)
All-Flash / Hybrid All-NVMe All-NVMe All-Flash
All-Flash
Single or dual Intel® Xeon® Dual Intel® Xeon® Single or dual Intel® Xeon® Dual Intel® Xeon® Dual Intel® Xeon®
Scalable Gen 3 Scalable Gen 3 Scalable Gen 3 Scalable Gen 3 Scalable Gen 3
10GbE or 25GbE OCP3 10GbE or 25GbE OCP3 10GbE or 25GbE OCP3 10GbE or 25GbE OCP3 10GbE or 25GbE OCP3
2nd Generation Intel Optane 2nd Generation Intel Optane 2nd Generation Intel Optane 2nd Generation Intel Optane Optane Memory not available
Persistent Memory Persistent Memory Persistent Memory Persistent Memory
Up to 3 x PCIe Gen4 slots Up to 3 x PCIe Gen4 slots Up to 4 x PCIe Gen4 slots Up to 6 x PCIe Gen4 slots Up to 8 x PCIe Gen4 slots
GPUs not available

Three single wide GPUs GPUs not available Two single width GPUs or Six single width GPUs or
Two double wide GPUs Two double wide GPUs
10GbE or 25GbE PCIe 10GbE or 25GbE PCIe 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE
Optane/NVMe/SAS cache Optane/NVMe cache Optane/NVMe/SAS cache Optane/NVMe cache Optane/NVMe/SAS cache
SAS/SATA capacity NVMe capacity 220V – 240V AC only
SmartDPU SmartDPUs not available SmartDPUs not available SmartDPU SmartDPU
FC HBA FC HBA FC HBA FC HBA FC HBA

VxRail on Dell PowerEdge
P675F/N E665/F/N P580N VD-4000 S670
Performance focused Our everything platform Performance focused Durable & rugged Storage dense
R7515 R6515 R840 XR4000 R750

24 x 2.5” drives 10 x 2.5” NVMe or 24 x 2.5” drives 4 x M.2 NVMe drives or 12 x 3.5” plus
All-Flash or NVMe 8 x 2.5” All-Flash / Hybrid All-NVMe 8 x M.2 NVMe drives 4 x 2.5” drives
Single 2nd or 3rd Gen Single 2nd or 3rd Gen Quad Intel® Xeon® Scalable Single Intel® Xeon® D, Single or dual Intel® Xeon®
AMD EYPC™ AMD EYPC™ Gen 2, up to 112 cores up to 20 cores Scalable Gen 3, up to 40 cores
10GbE or 25GbE OCP2 10GbE or 25GbE OCP2 10GbE or 25GbE OCP2 10GbE or 25GbE OCP3 10GbE or 25GbE OCP3
Three single width GPUs or GPUs not available Single NVIDIA M10 GPU Two NVIDIA A2 or GPUs not available
One double wide GPU Single NVIDIA A30 GPU
Up to 2 x PCIe Gen4 slots Up to 2 x PCIe Gen4 slots Up to 6 x PCIe Gen3 slots Up to 2 x PCIe Gen4 slots Up to 3 x PCIe Gen4 slots
Up to 12TB of Optane Short depth (only 14”) Only series with 3.5” HDD
Persistent Memory (Hybrid only)
Rugged operating range
from -5C to 55C
10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE
Optane/NVMe/SAS cache Optane/NVMe/SAS cache Optane/NVMe cache MIL-STD* and NEBS 3* certified NVMe / SAS cache
FC HBA FC HBA All NVMe capacity 48V DC PSU option FC HBA
48V DC PSU option FC HBA 48V DC PSU option

VxRail Performance highlights
Disclaimer: Based on internal Dell Technologies research (June 2021) of VxRail on latest generation PowerEdge with RDMA networking
compared with VxRail on 14G PowerEdge with Skylake. Actual results will vary.
155K IOPS/host mark on OLTP4K always under 1 ms !!!
Up to 2.2x increase in IOPS with a 53% reduction in latency for small and medium block IO
Over 3x increase in read throughput for 4k and 8k block sizes (128% for 16k)
Up to 2.46x increase in write throughput for 16k block sizes
2.6x increase in VMmark workloads

VxRail Configuration Flexibility for Your Workload
VxRail nodes based on Dell PowerEdge servers
Processor Storage
Intel® Xeon ® Scalable 2nd, 3rd and 4th Gen Cache drives: NVMe or SAS
AMD EPYC™ 2nd and 3rd Gen Capacity drives: NVMe, SAS, vSAS, or SATA
HDD available on some Series
RAM Base networking

64GB to 8TB Dual or quad 25GbE SFP28
Dual or quad 10GbE SFP+ or RJ45
PCIe available for NICs or FC HBA
GPU & DPU Accelerators Power supply

NVIDIA GPUs for VDI, AI and ML
A2, A16, A40, A30, and A100 Dual, hot-plug, redundant power supplies
AC with lowline or highline
NVIDIA & AMD Pensando SmartDPUs DC 48V available for most nodes
Options vary by Series
Scale how you need, when you need it
Minimizes risk and enables pay as you grow
Start with what you need Scale out Scale up

Minimize risk by closely Add as few a one node to Incrementally add storage
matching your requirements increase performance and capacity as data grows

VxRail Scale-out Rules
Balance Flexibility
All nodes in a cluster must run same Mix & match VxRail series in the cluster
version of VxRail HCI System Software (processors must be same vendor)
First 3 VxRail nodes must be identical Vary number of drives, CPU,

at time of cluster deployment memory, and model types
Cluster must be only VxRail with vSAN 2-64 nodes per cluster
nodes or VxRail dynamic nodes
All VxRail with vSAN nodes Mixing of all-flash and

must be either OSA or ESA all-NVMe in same cluster
All systems in the cluster must run the same Mixing generations of server hardware
base network speed (25GbE or 10GbE) in same cluster

Continuously modernize
Evergreen clusters simplify tech refresh—no forklift migrations
10GbE
VM
Add new system to cluster

vMotion workload to new system
Remove old node
Non-disruptively

Comprehensive Data Protection
Included and enhanced data protection capabilities
INCLUDED DATA PROTECTION ENHANCED DATA PROTECTION OPTIONS
Active/Active Stretched Clusters PowerProtect

• Continuous Availability for DR • Comprehensive backup and granular recovery
RecoverPoint for VMs • Continuous data protection for any PiT recovery
• Any point-in-time recovery • Runs on VxRail infrastructure,
• Starter quantity of licenses included or in cloud
• Includes VM Replication
vSphere Replication
• Specific point-in-time recovery (5min) PowerProtect X400
• Factory integrated data protection appliance
• Start small at 64TB and grow-in-place in increments of
16TB
• Automated capacity & performance balancing across
cluster
• All-Flash and Hybrid Options
Day 1 – Network flexibility
TOR switches
• NIC-level redundancy
– Create active/active network connections
– One port on NDC/OCP and one port on PCIe NIC
– Supported with customer-supplied VDS*
• Support multiple VDS NDC/OCP PCIe

– Separate management traffic for security
▪ Discovery, management, and vCenter
▪ vSAN and vMotion
VDS1 VDS2 Guest VDS
vCenter Guest Guest

Mgmt vMotion vSAN
Server VMs VMs

Efficiently Minimize Risk and Create a Secure Infrastructure
Foundation with VxRail
SECURITY BUILT IN AT EVERY LAYER

Operating
Evolve Starting with each processor and PowerEdge server through the
Model
predictably VxRail HCI System Software including the integrated VMware
Define
ain
software
De
int
sig
Ma
n
Secure
SECURITY ACROSS Development
Lifecycle
Operating CORE-EDGE-CLOUD
Re
Unlock
lop
lea
ve
Model
Innovation
se
De
Ensured availability, integrity and confidence for every
workload- traditional and cloud native Test
INTEGRATED LCM FOR SECURE, RAPID,

Operating
Foster AUTOMATED UPDATING Built in accordance to the Dell
Model
operational Synchronous VMware release commitment <30 days, Technologies Secure Development
freedom including best effort with Security Patches Lifecycle process

VxRail security advantages
Comprehensive security by design
Security Hardening Availability

Network Segmentation
Security Configuration Guide and High Availability,
vLAN segmentation, and optional
DISA STIG Compliant Scripts Data Protection, System
micro-segmentation with NSX
Recovery, and Monitoring
Access and Authentication VxRail Secure Logging IPv6 Ready

Restrict and manage host access with Audit logging with vRealize Log Insight USGv6 certified and meets
ACLs, RBAC, and lockdown mode; plus RA for Splunk integration IPv6 Ready standard
IPv6
support 2-factor authentication
KMIP Compliant Key FIPS 140-2 Level 1 Validated Integrity

Management Cryptography Secure Boot
KMIP client on vSphere Software Checksum
vSAN Encryption, VxRail software
Trusted Platform Module Dell Secure

International Certification Secure cryptoprocessor
EAL 2+ Certified Remote Support, AAA
Secure remote service

Dell Technologies Services
Ultimate choice and flexibility for the life of your systems
ProDeploy Residency ProSupport Optional Support Data Services

Enterprise Suite Services Enterprise Suite Services
Data Migration
Accelerate technology Set your business up One source for Optimize for Services
adoption with expert for future success and comprehensive Infrastructure Move data with
deployment anywhere growth hardware and
In-depth system confidence
software support
analysis and guidance
Data Sanitization
Onsite for Enterprise
Diagnostics Ensure security of
Troubleshooting by a sensitive data and
skilled technician to remain compliant
any site
Consulting Services | Managed Services | Education Services | Direct or Channel
With data-driven technologies to connect and manage your service experience

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Updated – July 11, 2023

This is a technical overview intended to provide a technical introduction to the core

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• Inclusion of latest generation VxRail: VP-760 and VE-660

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18.8K+ $10B 34% 267K+

CLOUD CORE EDGE

VDI Video SAP HANA AI/ML Kubernetes

More AI/ML and IoT Delivers consistent HCI will power

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DPU Node PowerStore

Cloud Core Edge

VxRail HCI System Software automated orchestration

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Overburdened IT staff Disruption to business Budget efficiencies

Lower costs by 47%

HBA330 Adapter FW: 16.17.00.05 (TF1M6) Driver: 17.00.02.00

Intel X710 DP/QP FW: 20.5.13 (M20T0) Driver: 2.1.5.0 (Ethernet)

Intel X710-T2L DP FW: 20.5.13 (M20T0) Driver: 2.1.5.0 (Ethernet)

Intel X710-T4L QP FW: 20.5.13 (M20T0) Driver: 2.1.5.0 (Ethernet)

Mellanox CX-6 DP FW: 22.31.10.14 (0WF35) Driver: 4.21.71.101 (RoCE)

iDRAC 5.00.10.20 (YCFHY)

iSM 4.1.0 (C8YW2)

Expander backplane 1.17 (GKRX8) P/V670F

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Traditional, manual approach vSAN Ready Node VxRail

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• Pre-update cluster health check

• Optionally schedule the cluster

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• Simplified health score

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vCenter Server deployment Base networking Management at scale

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Expanded datacenter Proven enhancement Edge computing

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• Scale compute and storage asymmetrically in VMware environments

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Flexible primary storage options –

Scale compute independent of storage.

VxRail HCI System Software with

VE-660, VP-760, E660F, P670F, and

Scale compute and storage

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Smaller footprint and lower cost than

Includes onboard RAID controller for

VxRail HCI System Software for a

VE-660, VP-760, E660, E660F, V670F

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• Data Center automation at scale / Benefits resulting in OPEX savings:

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Simple to use Powerful

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• System information queries • Day 2 cluster operations

•Day 1 cluster deployment •Much more possibilities via Extensibility

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VMware Software VxRail HCI System Software Data Protection Options

• Choice of vSAN • VxRail Manager • RecoverPoint for VMs