VBLOCK® SYSTEM 740 INDUSTRY’S MOST ADVANCED AND INTELLIGENT CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MISSIONCRITICAL WORKLOADS Faced with global competition and the increased speed of business, more and more organizations around the globe are relying heavily on their IT infrastructures to deliver. ® For IT professionals, a converged infrastructure model like VCE™ Vblock Systems— that integrates compute, network, storage, and virtualization into a single pool of resource and one that is engineered, manufactured, sustained, and supported by a 1 single vendor—has promised remarkable results as illustrated by a recent IDC study. VCE holds the #1 market position for Integrated Infrastructure Systems with 46 percent 2 ® which is part of the Integrated Systems as defined by Gartner. The new Vblock System 740 is the industry’s most advanced, intelligent converged infrastructure with unmatched performance, capacity, and availability for the most demanding mission-critical applications. Powered by the next generation of Cisco Unified Computing, Cisco Application-Centric ® Infrastructure (ACI)-ready network, VMware Virtualization and EMC VMAX3 storage array, the Vblock System 740 is VCE’s flagship product line. A key feature is the new VMAX3 hypervisor—HYPERMAX OS—that intelligently optimizes I/O management, QoS, availability, storage tiering, and data-integrity validation. Customers can expect a 3x storage performance and 2x SAN bandwidth increase over previous VMAX based Vblock Systems. Additional features include the industry’s first Cabinet 2.0—Intelligent Physical Infrastructures (IPI) that provides simplified power and environmental visibility. Vblock 740: Where security is a fundamental design and data is protected with a complete VCE portfolio of data protection, security, and mobility solutions. Unmatched Performance and Capacity The new release of the Vblock 740 is a flash optimized converged system delivering the performance and availability required for mission-critical workloads such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, and VDI. The system leverages best of technologies, setting the bar high for performance and capacity. • Enterprise customers have a choice of VMAX3 100K/ 200K/ 400K, enabling the selection of the right scale point and performance. • New VMAX3 HYPERMAX OS Optimizes I/O management, QoS, availability, storage tiering, and data integrity validation. • Customers can plan based on increased capacity and scaleable performance: Up to 512 Cisco blade servers and 5,760 EMC storage drives (4PB usable). • Increased network capacity and capability: Cisco ACI-Ready Nexus Switches 9396PX with 40GE, Cisco MDS 9000, and 16Gbps Fibre Channel deliver a future-proof platform, driving flexibility and performance, while delivering a platform for future SDN deployment. www.vce.com Agile, Intelligent and Resilient Infrastructure The Vblock 740 delivers an agile and resilient system to ensure that enterprise-class services are delivered without compromising service levels. • Enterprise customers can rapidly provision components based on workloads defined, and set service level objectives with an easy-to-use ‘one click’ EMC VMAX3 feature. • Intelligent physical infrastructure provides industry-leading facilities such as simplified power and environmental visibility with Cabinet 2.0. • Flexible data-center footprint optimization enables Vblock System cabinets to be separated up to 25 meters. • Respond to changing requirement with ACI-Ready Nexus 9000 series switches. • Achieve near zero downtime with a highly available infrastructure. THE WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE Breadth of VCE Portfolio Business Continuity and Data Protection VBLOCK IS CORNERSTONE OF NEW IN-HOUSE IT OPERATION FOR CANADIAN PACIFIC “For us, Vblock Systems are an ideal solution. We have one infrastructure from one business partner on one platform. It’s made it very easy. We were able to convert everything—our integrated Sybase database, SAP applications, the entire operation—in one weekend. Quite honestly, it’s been a flawless implementation to-date.” — Mike Redeker, Vice President and CIO Canadian Pacific As the industry leader, only VCE offers a complete portfolio of factoryintegrated data protection. Backups, archive, zero data loss, zero down time; whatever level of protection each business application needs, VCE delivers it in a manner that is scalable, rapidly deployed, lowest risk, and fully supported by a single phone call. Security and Compliance Vblock Systems are engineered with security as a fundamental requirement for system functionality and trust, providing a baseline security profile designed to incorporate and serve as a primer for your unique security and compliance requirements. Systems Management VCE delivers intelligent systems management of Vblock Systems. VCE also provides an extensible API to leading management tools to protect investments in existing management frameworks. Comprehensive VCE Experience • Greater Agility—Vblock 740 is the latest release in the VCE portfolio that is engineered, manufactured, maintained, and supported as a single system. It can be ordered and delivered within 45 days, and into production typically within a week. Vblock Systems are deployed by our 150 ‘Vblock Ready™’ global 1 ABOUT VCE qualified partners, giving customers a choice of certified professionals that use standardized, proven services. This translates into faster time-to-production for projects and follow-on activities, and faster timeto-business value. • Reduce Complexity and Risk— Every Vblock System is preengineered and validated in a VCE factory environment. This preengineering, pre-test, pre-validation are applied across all Vblock Systems to greatly reduce deployment time and risk. • Comprehensive Services—VCE can help you develop a cloudcomputing roadmap, and deploy and integrate your systems quickly to ensure operational success. Postdeployment, VCE™ Support proactively identifies and resolves issues to streamline support and deliver a better experience. • Lifecycle System Assurance— Rely on the latest Release Certification Matrix from VCE to streamline software release planning and configuration management across all hardware and software platforms. VCE is taking this unique customer sought-after VCE Experience across all Vblock Systems to enable an unmatched user experience and support a combination of traditional and emerging workloads. Source :www.vce.com/asset/documents/noindex/idc-vblock-value-whitepaper.pdf 2 Source : Gartner Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware Integrated Systems, 2013 and www.vce.com/landing/gartner VCE, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers. VCE, through the Vblock Systems delivers the industry’s only fully integrated and fully virtualized cloud infrastructure system. VCE solutions are available through an extensive partner network, and cover horizontal applications, vertical industry offerings, and application development environments, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating and managing IT infrastructure. Copyright © 2014 VCE Company, LLC. All rights reserved. VCE, VCE Vision, Vblock, and the VCE logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of VCE Company LLC or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT US AT www.vce.com 10062014