Better Together

VxRack FLEX + Dell PowerEdge

Recognized as a market
leader by Gartner in 20
Gartner MQs
According to IDC$

#1

#1

#1

#1

#1

#1

CI

STORAGE

DC AUTOMATION

PCs

CLOUD

VIRTUALIZATION

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Heard on Day 1$
Dell PowerEdge + HCI Portfolio:
Obvious. Necessary. Awesome.
Chad Sakac -- 9/7/16

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Key topics
Day 1 CPSD content highlights
Better together VCE HCI + Dell PowerEdge
VxRack FLEX orderable with PowerEdge
ScaleIO Ready Nodes orderable with
PowerEdge

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New Day 1 Content Highlights

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Better together

DELL POWEREDGE
SERVERS

VCE HYPER-CONVERGED
PORTFOLIO

Better together
Compelling economics
New use cases
Investment protection

VCE HYPER-CONVERGED PORTFOLIO

POWERED BY
SERVERS

The Dell PowerEdge transformation begins$

VxRack FLEX

VxRail

Orderable now

Orderable October

Enablement now

Enablement October

Shipping November

Shipping December

VxRack
Neutrino
Orderable Q1
Shipping Q1

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/WORLD

VxRack SDDC
Stay tuned!

October 18-20

VxRail platform strategy

Complete the portfolio by adding Dell platforms

Current form factor

New form factors in Q4

Refresh Quanta platform for existing

use cases

Add Dell platforms for

additional use cases

VxRail Manager support both platform types

Appliances in a cluster do not need to match
Transition to all Dell when Dell 2U4N platform supports 12G SAS
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VxRack FLEX
Update

Why VxRack FLEX with Dell PowerEdge

Game changing density
Benefit->Dell PowerEdge servers with all flash are 2.5x more dense
than previous flash options, reducing floor space
17TB useable vs. 7TB

Compelling Economics
Benefit->Dell PowerEdge servers offer 50% more all-flash capacity
for same price or less

Application acceleration
Benefit->Improved performance for I/O intensive apps like OLTP

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New configurations
The Dell EMC Advantage

Orderable starting September 16

PowerEdge R630 (1U/1N)
PowerEdge R730xd (2U/1N)
Offering options for all-flash, storage only, or hybrid

Shipping November

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How to order VxRack FLEX with Dell PowerEdge

There will be the DASH option once parts are available

Until XACT is updated, GPS will be there to support swapping nodes for DELL nodes
manually

XACT will be updated in the coming weeks for new PowerEdge options and that will
be the primary CPQ process

What does this mean?

No change to your existing process

What does this mean for Dell sales/Partners?

Only VCE has direct ordering. Dell sales should go through

VCE account teams.

Partners still use DASH.

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Whats the value?

Value to VCE

VxRack is the first in a new market category of

rackscale hyper-converged systems
With the addition of Dell PowerEdge Servers,
now customers of all shapes and sizes from
midmarket to enterprise can take advantage
of the expanded Dell EMC portfolio.

Value to Me

Value to My Customer

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Game changing density: Dell PowerEdge

servers with all flash are 2.5x more dense than
previous flash options, reducing floor space
(17TB useable vs. 7TB)
Compelling Economics: Dell PowerEdge
servers offer 50% more all-flash capacity for
same price or less
Application acceleration: Improved
performance for I/O intensive apps like OLTP
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Deliver more node choices for customers via

investment protection, faster innovation, supply
chain advantages, and ultimately cost
advantages and

Value Against My Competition

Customers looking to embrace hyper-converged

at massive scale for both traditional and next
gen applications
Customers that want to buy vs. build
infrastructure so they can focus on innovation
vs. integration

VxRack FLEX all-flash capability with PowerEdge

Bring the power of All-Flash
closer to your applications
Highest
Performance

Extreme
Response

Delivers high capacity and cost efficiency at a lower price point

Delivers ultra-low latency, and sub-millisecond response times
Provides the highest levels of performance
Maximizes storage resources without sacrificing processing
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Maximize
Resources

VxRack FLEX- enhanced caching with PowerEdge

Accelerating
the speed of storage
Instant
Access

Flexible
Deployment

Maximize
Resources

SanDisk DAS Cache is software that

runs within operating system

Increases the performance of I/O

intensive applications

Intelligently prioritizes hot data to SSD

flash and colder data to spinning disk

Makes the most actively used data

accessible - faster

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VxRack FLEX enclosure configurations

Dell PowerEdge R630
Name

High-Density: All-Flash

CPU

Memory

SSD/
Node

HDD/
Node

DAS
Cache

Total # of
cores /Node

2x E5-2697Av4

512

10x1.6TB

None

No

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High-Density: Cached High

2x E5-2680v4

768

2x800GB

8x1.2TB

Yes

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High-Density: Cached Entry

2x E5-2650v4

256

2x800GB

8x1.2TB

Yes

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High-Density Flash: Dense SSDHigh Capacity

2x E5-2680v4

512

10x3.84TB

None

No

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High-Density Flash: Dense SSDMid Capacity

2x E5-2680v4

512

10x1.92TB

None

No

28

2x E5-2620v4

64

10x1.6TB

None

No

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2x E5-2620v4

64

2x800GB

8x1.2TB

Yes

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High-Density: Storage Only AllFlash

High-Density: Storage Only
Cached
High-Density: Storage Only Max
HDD

2x E5-2620v4

64

None

10x1.2TB

No

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High-Density: Storage Only Flash

Dense SSD- High Capacity

2x E5-2620v4

64

10x3.84TB

None

No

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High-Density: Storage Only FlashDense SSD- Mid Capacity

2x E5-2620v4

64

10x1.92TB

None

No

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Node Type:1U1N
NIC/Node:4x10GbE+BMC
Boot/Node:64GB SATADOM

VxRack FLEX enclosure configurations

Dell Poweredge R730xd
Name

CPU

Memory

SSD/
Node

HDD/
Node

DAS
Cache

Total # of
cores /Node

Capacity Cached: High

2x E5-2680v4

512

2x800GB

22x1.2TB

Yes

28

2x E5-2650v4

256

2x800GB

22x1.2TB

Yes

24

2x E5-2680v4

256

6x800GB

18x1.2TB

Yes

28

2x E5-2680v4

512

24x1.92TB

None

No

28

1x E5-2620v4

64

2x800GB

22x1.2TB

Yes

1x E5-2650v4

64

6x800GB

18x1.2TB

Yes

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1x E5-2620v4

64

None

24x1.2TB

No

1x E5-2650v4

64

24x1.92TB

None

No

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Capacity Cached: Medium

Capacity Mixed: SSD/HDD
Capacity All-Flash: Dense SSD
Storage Only: Cached 1
Storage Only: Mixed SSD/HDD
Storage Only: Max Capacity HDD
Capacity All-Flash: Dense SSD-

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Node Type:2U1N
NIC/Node:4x10GbE+BMC
Boot/Node:64GB SATADOM

VxRack FLEX management update

VxRack Manager is no longer being installed on VxRack FLEX

VxRack Systems with FLEX is currently managed with a suite of tools, including:

VCE Vision Intelligent Operations (multi-system management dashboard)

VCE Vision software Shell (multi-system command line interface)

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Provision, place, and monitor virtual machines

ScaleIO Management Tools (native GUI or vCenter Plug-In):

Configure settings on devices (switches, Rack IPMI only)

VMware vCenter (native GUI)

See inventory and related objects (network, compute, storage and virtualization)
Monitor Health (system and component level)
Manage RCM Compliance Management (score and report)

Configure:
o Protection domains
o Storage volumes
o Storage pools

To simplify user experience, our strategy and roadmap calls for offering the ScaleIO and other new
capabilities through the VCE Vision Intelligent Operations software in the future.
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ScaleIO Ready Nodes

WIDE
DISTRIBUTION
of data
delivers
MASSIVE
PERFORMANCE

SELF-HEALING
ARCHITECTURE
enables
6X9S
AVAILABILITY
PROFILE
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UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE

BUILT IN
MULTIPATHING
distributes
traffic
ACROSS ALL
AVAILABLE
RESOURCES

STORAGE SHARED
across
ALL
ESX CLUSTERS
leaves
NO RESOURCES
STRANDED

STORAGE-ONLY
and/or
HYPER-CONVERGED
supports
CURRENT & FUTURE
GOALS

SCALEIO

Rack servers delivering large

memory footprint, superior IO
performance and scale-out
storage efficiency
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Software defined storage designed

with enterprise-grade resiliency to
deliver, scale-out, block storage
using industry standard hardware

Rack servers delivering large

memory footprint, superior IO
performance and scale-out
storage efficiency
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Software defined storage designed

with enterprise-grade resiliency to
deliver, scale-out, block storage
using industry standard hardware

Combining powerful hardware with agile, scalable

and performant software

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Dell 13G PowerEdge Servers +

ScaleIO SW

Simplified planning and building

Fully architected

Single vendor fully supported

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Pre-validated, tested and configured

VxRack FLEX quick configurations

100% Software Defined

100% Flash

100% Scale-Out

100% Trusted

8 Node
224 CPU Cores
4TB RAM
124TB Useable SSD
550,000 IOPS <1ms

15 Node
420 CPU Cores
7.5TB RAM
248TB Useable SSD
1,038,000 IOPS <1ms

25 Node
700 CPU Cores
12.5TB RAM
428TB Useable SSD
1,730,000 IOPS <1ms

(70/30 R/W 8k)

(70/30 R/W 8k)

(70/30 R/W 8k)

12.4GB/s Throughput

23.2GB/s Throughput

38.7GB/s Throughput

(70/30 R/W 64k)

(70/30 R/W 64k)

(70/30 R/W 64k)

Engineered, Manufactured, Managed, Supported, Sustained

As ONE System

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