Solution Brief

Dell PowerFlex with Dell VxRailDynamic Nodes – A Dynamic Duo
Managing IT infrastructure in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape presents significantchallenges. Many businesses are actively navigating new and emerging workloads while stillneeding to support traditional workloads, all with varying SLAs and performance characteristics.
With PowerFlex as the primary storage, VxRail dynamic nodes can address extreme workload
requirements and deliver consolidation efficiencies otherwise out of reach for traditional VMware
vSAN-based solutions.

Optimizing outcomes for a broaderset of workloads
With PowerFlex SDS, businesses can effectively address
workloads with diverse performance profiles. PowerFlex
scale-out architecture can pool available storageand network resources, delivering extreme IO andthroughput performance for a broad set of workloads.
The architecture scales the performance linearlyand predictably to 1000’s of nodes while maintaining
sub-millisecond latency. And with the self-healing
capabilities, PowerFlex can recover and rebuild fromdrive or node failures without disrupting the workloads.
This ensures extreme resilience for your criticalapplications with up to 99.9999% availability.

Scale more precisely
VxRail dynamic nodes are compute only nodes thatenable storage flexibility by leveraging Dell external
storage arrays such as Dell PowerFlex SDS as primarystorage in VxRail vSphere environments. This allows you
to scale compute and storage asymmetrically based on
evolving workload demands, especially as data volumes
continue to explode and customers adopt new andinnovative artificial intelligence (AI) use cases to optimize
business outcomes.
Not only do VxRail dynamic nodes enable independent
storage scaling, but by shifting the storage services toexternal systems, resource hungry operations are alsooffloaded. This allows the VxRail dynamic node resources
to be fully devoted to compute workloads, helping
improve workload performance and consolidation density.
Plus, it eliminates data lock in with open and flexible
shared SDS for investment protection and choice.
This ultimately expands deployment configurations
on standardized technology to address more datacentric workloads for those that need enterprise-grade
performance, scalability, and resiliency.

© Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved. Dell and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Common operations

Greater performance, agility, and simplicity

The VxRail dynamic node delivers the same VxRail HCI
System Software operational efficiencies including
guided wizard-based deployment, automated lifecycle
management, and infrastructure operation automation
all through familiar vCenter user interface. This gives
you a consistent operating experience across yourinfrastructure and delivers the same curated experienceand deep VMware integration for a seamless HCI
experience including managing the VxRail dynamic
node through the native VxRail Manager plug-in forvCenter. Operations are simplified and streamlined withautomated lifecycle management. Plus, VxRail is backed
by extensive VxRail testing, optimization and validation
ensuring your entire VxRail deployment stays in acontinuously validated state.

Modern IT demands streamlined operations, enhanced
performance, and cutting-edge innovation without all thecomplexity. VxRail dynamic nodes address a broader
range of workloads optimizing performance and resource
utilization while ensuring simplified management. ITteams can adapt to changing business requirements
efficiently, enhancing agility and scalability within their
VMware environments. Take advantage of Dell external
software defined storage to address data centric
workloads, optimize performance on your specific needs,
and deliver efficiency without compromise.

Learn more about Dell
PowerFlex and VxRail
dynamic nodes

Contact a Dell
Technologies Expert

View more resources© Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved. Dell and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Join the conversation with
#VxRail and #PowerFlex