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EMC VSPEX™ BLUE FOR
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
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A Simple, Faster Way for IT
to Deploy Virtualized Environments
ESSENTIALS
Challenges
Increase agility, drive innovation and overcome
the IT skills gap faced by mid-market businesses
The Solution
EMC VSPEX BLUE – Agile, scalable and trusted
hyper-converged infrastructure for virtualized
environments
Agile
• Respond quickly to changing
business demands
• Speed time to deployment with single,
elastic pool of resources
• Streamline operations with wizard-driven
deployment, upgrades and patches
Scalable
• Linear scale-out with small increment,
cost-effective building block approach
• Eliminates need for pre-planned
infrastructure purchases
• Cloud Gateway provides unlimited
cloud storage
Trusted
• One call global support with single point of
accountability for hardware and software
• EMC Secure Remote Services enables
remote monitoring, diagnostics and repair
• Industry leading Data Protection
safeguards the entire system
THE CHALLENGE: DOING MORE WITH LESS
Mid-market and Enterprise organizations today rely on technology to improve the
customer experience, enhance productivity, and foster innovation in competitive
markets. Unfortunately, limited resources and ever-tighter budget constraints
make it necessary for businesses to do more with less — to get the most out of
their technology investment while maximizing flexibility. Virtualized environments
provide the agility and flexibility needed to respond quickly to market
opportunities and generate new revenues or meet the most demanding servicelevel agreements (SLAs)—while streamlining operations and controlling costs.
THE SOLUTION: EMC VSPEX™ BLUE REDEFINES
SIMPLICITY FOR VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS
EMC VSPEX™ BLUE is a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that
offers the simplest, quickest, and most efficient path to your virtualized
environment. Built on a 2U/4-node, Intel® Xeon® processor-based x86-based
server and powered by innovative VMware® EVO:RAIL™ and EMC software,
EMC VSPEX™ BLUE combines compute, network, storage, virtualization,
management, and data protection—into a single appliance. In addition, you’ll
enjoy a global, single point-of-support from EMC for the entire appliance—
including all VMware software.
FASTEST, LOWEST RISK PATH
TO VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS
EMC VSPEX BLUE offers you a fast, low-risk way to deploy virtual infrastructure.
The all-inclusive, hyper-converged infrastructure appliance takes virtualized
converged infrastructure to a whole new level—accelerating your agility and
time-to-value by getting you from power-on to provisioning of virtual machines
(VMs) in as little as 15 minutes.
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At the heart of EMC VSPEX BLUE is VMware® EVO:RAIL™ software, which
transforms the installation and management of a Software Defined Data
Center (SDDC) into simple point-and-click operations. There’s never been an
easier-to-deploy solution for virtualization. Creating VMs with the VMware
EVO:RAIL management engine requires just a few simple steps. Select from
pre-defined small, medium, or large VMs.
Specify a guest OS, virtual local area network (VLAN), security options, and data
protection. With EMC VSPEX BLUE, you can eliminate more than 200 manual
configuration tasks and workflows—simplifying IT administration and improving
the productivity of your team and end users.
Other timesaving features that reduce the demand on your IT team include:
• Fully automated management and orchestration to streamline the
provisioning and configuration of virtualized infrastructure resources
• One-click, non-disruptive patches and updates to enhance performance
and availability
• Rapid scale-out to meet growth requirements, with automatic discovery
for each new appliance
EXCEPTIONALLY FLEXIBLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE
Trying to forecast the impact of growth on your IT needs? EMC VSPEX BLUE
greatly reduces the time burden of complex advanced planning and eliminates
over-purchasing to accommodate future requirements. You can start with one
2U/4-node appliance and add as many as three additional appliances—quickly
and effortlessly.
EMC VSPEX BLUE’s elastic, linear scaling is supported by a distributed system in
which each appliance you add will supply full system resource availability to your
virtual environment, with nothing lost to overhead. An appliance can be joined
to a cluster with just one click—and the infrastructure automatically rebalances
resources and workloads across the cluster, creating a single resource pool.
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What’s more, if you’re considering a hybrid cloud solution to maximize your
flexibility, ease your transition to the cloud, or safeguard sensitive data while
leveraging the unlimited resources of the public cloud, EMC VSPEX BLUE makes it
easy. The EMC CloudArray gateway lets you efficiently access all the on-demand
cloud NAS (file) storage for capacity expansion, backup and archive resources
you desire. A sophisticated bandwidth scheduler, data reduction technology and
on-site dynamic disk cache eliminate latency to minimize network impact. Multilayer encryption and local key management guard against unauthorized access.
TRUST EMC TO DELIVER SUPERIOR VALUE
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CONTACT US
To learn more about how VSPEX solutions can help
solve your business and IT challenges, contact
your local representative or authorized reseller—
or visit us at www.emc.com/vspex.
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With EMC VSPEX BLUE, you’re assured of the additional value that comes from
the EMC Federation of companies. To begin, EMC’s appliance is built on highly
reliable, Intel Xeon processor-based servers and is integrated with VMware
software at the kernel level. This deep integration gives EMC VSPEX BLUE
significant performance advantages and improved operational efficiencies over
other hyper-converged infrastructure appliances.
EMC offers global, 24x7 support for all infrastructure hardware and software, to
simplify and streamline any issue resolution that may be required. In addition,
you’ll enjoy EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS)—which establishes a two-way
remote connection between your EMC VSPEX BLUE infrastructure and EMC
Customer Support—for proactive, secure, remote monitoring, diagnostics, and
repair. This ensures the fastest possible response and maximizes uptime for your
most critical applications.
Further, EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines delivers local and remote
hypervisor-based replication and continuous data protection for per-VM recovery
to any point in time—as well as built-in automated operational and disaster
recovery orchestration. This is in addition to VMware vSphere Data Protection
Advanced (VDPA), based on EMC Avamar technology. VDPA provides backup
and recovery with sophisticated deduplication that reduces storage consumption
up to 75%, for more efficient storage and backup to local or centralize targets.
If you’re responsible for IT for any Mid-market or Enterprise company,
EMC VSPEX BLUE provides the most agile, scalable and trusted path to a
virtual environment.
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