2nd Gen Dell Cloud Data Center-as-a-Service With VMware

By Varun Chhabra, senior director, product marketing, Dell EMC, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company

Customers love the speed and flexibility of public cloud but the performance, security and control of on-premises infrastructure.

They have been asking for an approach that combines both without introducing organization complexities. Therefore, we introduced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, the managed Dell Technologies Cloud Data Center-as-a-Service last year that combines the benefits of public cloud and on-premises infrastructure, delivered as-a-service to customers. It delivers cloud-like ease of use to your on-premises workloads and provides consistent operations between on-premises and public cloud environments. The cloud service delivers the VMware Cloud experience on the industry leading Dell EMC VxRail hyper converged platform, providing a fully managed data center as-a-Service offering. This solution is co-engineered by Dell Technologies, Inc. and VMware, Inc. and on-going services managed by VMware.

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC has officially launched its 2nd gen offering aimed at providing enterprises with a scalable infrastructure service option that solves significant financial and IT team challenges. This release is focused on helping enterprise customers run advanced power-hungry workloads, scalability and enhanced customer experience.

It specifically delivers the following major service enhancements:

• Support for advanced enterprise workloads: To satisfy today’s advanced workloads and customers’ need for scalability, this release introduces a full-height 42 rack unit infrastructure rack, which includes Dell EMC redundant network switches for host aggregation, redundant Dell EMC smart power distribution units, and redundant SD-WAN remote management devices. With this release, this new rack can support up to 16 hosts. Upcoming releases will further increase this number. This release also broadens the number and breadth of VxRail hosts now offered for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. The latest VxRail hyper converged hosts are based on dual 2^nd generation Intel SP processors, providing 48 cores, paired with 768GB RAM and 23TB of NVMe all-flash storage. This host type is optimal for hosting workloads with heavier CPU, memory, and storage demands such as Database, AI/ML applications, and Virtual Desktop type workloads. Details on hosts and rack specs.

• Enhanced customer experience: With thhs release comes a edesigned customer experience portal. From this portal, customers can access a library of self-learning resources, get status information for various service attributes, add additional capacity to their service and schedule software updates or service calls.

• Backup and data protection: The VMware Cloud on Dell EMC adds the certification and support of Dell Technologies Data Protection solution portfolio. This solution portfolio comprises multiple software and hardware products that can be combined to create a flexible, custom designed data protection and backup solution optimally tailored to business needs.

• BC support via VDI: In today’s environment, virtual desktops are a critical capability for enabling business continuity as more people work from home. The latest release of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is now certified for VMware Horizon to deliver virtual desktops at the edge or in the data center.

• Faster time to deployment: VMware HCX is an application mobility platform designed for simplifying application migration, workload rebalancing and business continuity across data centers and cloud. The latest release will make HCX available in a technical preview mode for select customers.