Dell announces new capabilities to VxRail, APEX and Validated Design for AI
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- 30 Aug 2022
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Dell announced, at VMware Explore on Tuesday, some new advancements designed to improve the performance of its hyper-converged infrastructure, VxRail, as well as enhancements to Dell APEX cloud management services and Dell Validated Design for AI.
The new VxRail capabilities were developed based on VMware’s Project Monterey initiative philosophy that treats computing workloads “as a distributed control fabric through tight integration with DPUs”, which improves system performance by off-loading data processing to a dedicated on-board DPU, Dell said in a press release.
What’s new in Dell EMC VxRail
Select VxRail systems will now support new VMware vSphere 8 software that was rearchitected to run on DPUs as well as VMware’s new vSAN Enterprise Storage Architecture. Dell claims the new VxRail system provides up to 4x vSAN performance improvement over existing systems. VxRail was co-developed with VMware and optimized to run VMware vSAN.
VxRail has also been re-packaged into smaller, half-blade modular nodes that are rackable. This is the VxRail’s smallest form factor to date, Dell said. The new systems are designed to work in high latency, low bandwidth locations.
“Dell VxRail with VMware vSphere 8 will deliver a foundation for next generation data center architecture by running infrastructure services on the DPU,” said Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Group, in a press release. “This will enable greater network and application performance and a new level of sophistication in adopting Zero Trust security strategies to protect modern enterprise workloads.” Read More...
