SOLUTION OVERVIEW

ESSENTIALS Challenges

Design and implement high-performance, scalable, cost-effective private cloud storage infrastructure that can consolidate ALL workloads and keep pace with the speed of business. The Solution

VSPEX with XtremIO enables total workload consolidation with predictable scale-out performance, cost and scalability for the agile data center, delivered as a reference architecture. Simple

Proven reference architectures, delivered by EMC partners simplify full-stack deployment and management. Efficient

Flexible

Scalable Reference Architecturesthat provide flexibility with supportfor industry leading virtualization,server and networking technologies. Enables rapid provisioning of applications and services.

EMC VSPEX PRIVATE CLOUD WITH XTREMIO

Deploy Your All-Flash Virtual Environment Simply, Efficiently and Flexibly

THE CHALLENGE: SCALING IT FOR CONSOLIDATED PERFORMANCE WORKLOADS Private cloud infrastructure enables IT organizations to solve some of the enterprises’ biggest business and technology challenges. A private cloud helps reduce costs, increase efficiency, and introduce innovative new business models to make the enterprises more agile and efficient.

Unfortunately private cloud deployments require a brand new approach of consolidating the demanding requirements of all their tenants into one simple infrastructure. When it comes to storage, IT organizations are forced to plan, design and deploy a solution that is cost-effective, delivers consistent scale-out performance for all SLAs, simple to manage across a wide spectrum of applications and their lifecycle copies. For traditional storage, these are impossible and contradictory objectives.

THE SOLUTION: VSPEX PRIVATE CLOUD WITH XTREMIO Your private cloud and virtual server workloads deserve a storage infrastructure that can fulfill no-compromise SLAs for the most demanding applications – an infrastructure that can consolidate diverse applications and workloads on a common scale-out storage platform, much like what is already done with the scale-out server consolidation. VSPEX eliminates the concerns of cobbling together a complete virtual infrastructure by provide guidance on the components that have been tested to be compatible and that are proven to scale to deliver the performance your business requires. XtremIO was designed from the ground-up for the virtual all-flash era, and it delivers breakthrough consistent IO performance and sub-millisecond latency with all data services, all the while simplifying management and minimizing storage footprint.

SIMPLE: EMC PROVEN, PARTNER DELIVERED Sized and tested by EMC, VSPEX with XtremIO ensures predictable levels of performance and scalability for all performance workloads, delivered as a reference architecture to help your IT become more agile, and responsive while driving down total cost of ownership – so you can focus on your business and not worry about your infrastructure. With sizing from 400 to 8400 VMs, there’s a solution for everyone.

XtremIO’s revolutionary internal architecture completely eliminates complex setup and tuning steps, while inherently delivering maximum performance. Create and size volumes in a few clicks, map them to hosts with a few more, and the array is configured. XtremIO can go from shipping box to production in well under an hour.

SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT: STREAMLINE OPERATIONS AND MINIMIZE FOOTPRINT With a scale-out design that grows according to your needs, additional performance and capacity are added linearly, allowing you to expand capacity and performance whenever you need it. XtremIO’s unique architecture ensures that maximum performance is maintained as the system scales for all workloads with all data services always on – without administrator intervention, configuration or tuning.

XtremIO utilizes efficient inline data reduction and space-efficient copy services, dramatically reducing the total storage footprint and the TCO while ensuring consistently high IO performance. With an average of 6:1 data reduction, it is less expensive than traditional disk.

Additionally, XtremIO ensures that all deployed workloads perform blazingly fast out of the box, further relieving virtualization administrators of time consuming specialized configurations and tuning.

FLEXIBLE: DELIVER DATA CENTER AGILITY Virtualization is a key component of any Private Cloud deployment. XtremIO supports a variety of hypervisors including ESXi, Hyper-V and KVM. XtremIO uniquely integrates with VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) for array-based in-memory copy services, with inline data reduction for instantaneous provisioning of new application instances and services.

Further, to simplify and expedite the complete application lifecycle, XtremIO provides instant, writable copies that can be used to rapidly provision a large number of application and data instances on demand, with no impact on capacity consumption or IO performance. These copies can be utilized to expedite development, test, QA, Dev/Ops, and analytics operations, helping organizations achieve their IT goals with unprecedented workflow agility.

SUMMARY VSPEX with XtremIO reference architectures deliver complete virtualized solutions that are simple, efficient, and flexible. As with all VSPEX offerings, rigorous testing and validation eliminates the complexity of planning, sizing, and testing so that you can deploy a complete infrastructure. You can add capacity as you grow with linear and predictable expansion of capacity and performance with a solution that offers high IOPS and low latency all the time, without compromise or complex tuning. With VSPEX and XtremIO, IT organizations can build a fully virtualized data center that is simple, efficient, predictable and cost effective. And support for VSPEX is simple. Just call EMC. A specialized VSPEX support team will handle all calls and stays on line until resolution. So you can rest assured knowing your entire VSPEX solution is fully supported by EMC.

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