Oh no, you're thinking, yet another cookie pop-up. Well, sorry, it's the law. We measure how many people read us, and ensure you see relevant ads, by storing cookies on your device. If you're cool with that, hit “Accept all Cookies”. For more info and to customize your settings, hit “Customize Settings”.

Review and manage your consent

Here's an overview of our use of cookies, similar technologies and how to manage them. You can also change your choices at any time, by hitting the “Your Consent Options” link on the site's footer.

Manage Cookie Preferences
  • These cookies are strictly necessary so that you can navigate the site as normal and use all features. Without these cookies we cannot provide you with the service that you expect.

  • These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

  • These cookies collect information in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used. They allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our sites. If people say no to these cookies, we do not know how many people have visited and we cannot monitor performance.

See also our Cookie policy and Privacy policy.

This article is more than 1 year old

Bless. It's VMware and Dell EMC's first jointly engineered hybrid cloud infrastructure solution

Cloud Foundation makes debut on Dell EMC VxRail systems

VMware's Cloud Foundation hybrid cloud stack has hit version 3.7 and is available from April as a component of a pre-built private cloud appliance running on Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) kit.

VMware and parent Dell EMC have billed this as their first jointly engineered hybrid cloud infrastructure.

The virtualization juggernaut unveiled Cloud Foundation – its software stack for setting up on-and-off-premises hybrid clouds – at the company's VMworld knees-up in 2016 as part of the firm's hybrid cloud play. In essence the stack pulls together VMware's vSphere, vSAN and NSX components into a "Software-Defined Data Centre" (SDDC) stack, with the twist that it can be deployed on qualified hardware as an on-premises private cloud, or from the public cloud as a service.

Since launch, Cloud Foundation has popped up on several cloud platforms, most notably as VMware Cloud on AWS, but also IBM Cloud, Rackspace and CenturyLink. It can also be deployed on certified hardware that meets VMware's vSAN ReadyNode validated server configuration specification.

Shapes and sizes

The VxRail appliances come in a variety of configurations, in either a 1U or 2U chassis with varying CPU speeds, core counts, memory sizes, as well as physical disk capacity and SSD caching capacities.

But as with other HCI systems, the software layer is the key, and Dell EMC has promised that Cloud Foundation on VxRail will be lifecycle-managed as one complete, automated, turnkey system.

Dell EMC and VMware hold an advantage here in their ability to commit to the synchronous release of VxRail and VMware software updates, and so keep the on-site stack consistent with instances of Cloud Foundation running in the cloud. With the vRealize management suite, VMware shops should also be able to oversee public and private cloud resources from the same console.

On VxRail, Cloud Foundation calls for a minimum cluster size of four nodes, and can scale up to eight racks, with each comprising up to 32 1U or 16 2U nodes.

The Cloud Foundation 3.7 release also supports fully automated deployment of VMware's Horizon 7 virtual desktop infrastructure software. ®

 

Similar topics

Similar topics

Similar topics

TIP US OFF

Send us news


Other stories you might like