This document provides an overview of VMware's EVO:RAIL hyper-converged infrastructure appliance. It discusses how EVO:RAIL delivers unique capabilities and value by starting from vSphere and Virtual SAN. It also outlines EVO:RAIL's key features, use cases, pricing and packaging, and roadmap for future versions including preview information about EVO:RAIL 2.0.
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1. 息 2015 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.
EVO:RAIL
The ideal hyper-足converged infrastructure appliance for your VMs
VMworld 2015
Erik Bussink, Solution Architect
17 Septembre 2015
2. VMware HCI Delivers Unique Capabilities and Value
1
$
Choice Integration
Performance Cost
3. VMwares approach to HCI starts from vSphere and Virtual SAN
Virtualized Server Rack with
Standalone Storage and Networking
External SAN Server Rack
Physical Convergence of
Storage and Networking on
Commodity x86 Hardware
Server Rack
Infrastructure
Shift
Network
4. Multiple Paths to Hyper-足Converged Infrastructure
Software + Hardware
Ready NodeSoftware
Integrated Systems
Flexibility
Ease of
Use
5. Unprecedented Hyper-足Converged Customer Momentum
2000+ Customers
In my experience VMware solutions are
rock solidwere ready to nearly double
our Virtual SAN deployment.
EVO:RAIL adoption has lowered our
TCO by 40%.
7. Key Features
Scalable and modular architecture housed in a small form factor
2U/4N form factor including compute, storage, network and management resources
Flexible hardware configuration (up to 100 configuration options)
Linear and automated scale out design, up to 16 appliances (64 nodes)
Fully orchestrated deployment, configuration and management
First VM in minutes (from power up)
Radically simple management of your VM, appliance, cluster and across clusters
Non-足disruptive updates
High performance and resiliency
For all virtualized workloads, including tier-足1 apps
Four independent ESXi hosts for non-足disruptive migration during planned maintenance or failure
vSphere HA, vMotion, DRS and Virtual SAN for high availability
Reduce complexity and support costs, and time to recovery
Single point of support for both hardware and software
Advanced log analysis capabilities
8 Global Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners
New
8. 2U
4 Nodes
Form Factor
Processor
Memory
Storage
Network
Copper
128GB 192GB 256GB 512GB
6 cores 8 cores 10 cores 12 cores
Fiber
Per server node (x4 per appliance)
2 x 10GbE NIC port and 1 x 1GbE out-足of-足band management port
384GB
18 cores
1 X 400GB
SSD
Option 1:
3 X 1.2TB
HDD
1 X 800GB
SSD
5 X 1.2TB
HDD
Option 2:
~ 22TB Virtual SAN datastore per appliance ~13TB Virtual SAN datastore per appliance
Dual Intel E5 Ivy Bridge and/or Haswell processor
Hardware flexibility
9. 200 VMs
500 Desktops
400 VMs
1000 Desktops
600VMs
1500 Desktops
800 VMs
2000 Desktops
Simplified Linear Scale Out
Scale performance, bandwidth, and capacity by simply adding appliances
Each appliance adds compute, networking, and storage resources in minutes
New appliances are automatically discovered
Add to the cluster with zero configuration
Supports 16 appliances (64 hosts) in v2
General-足purpose VM profile: 2 vCPU, 4GB vMEM,60GB of vDisk, with redundancy
Horizon View virtual desktop profile: 2 vCPU, 2GB vMEM, 32GB vDisk linked clones
10. 端 Elastic
Grow on demand up to 16 appliances (64 nodes)
端 Fast
Add a new appliance in minutes
端 Non-足disruptive
No app downtime
X16
in a
cluster
10,000+ VMs*
in a single
cluster
* Number of VMs varies based on VM profiles and hardware specifications
VMworld 2014 April 2015 VMworld 2015
Linear Scalability
11. Easily add up to 16
appliances for increased
capacity
All virtualized workloads
running on VMware,
including mission-足critical
and tier-足1 apps
Application uptime ensured
through HA, DRS, Virtual
SAN and EVO:RAIL
Engine
Up to 4000 virtual desktops*
Handle peak performance
requirements (boot, login,
read/write storms)
Quick and easy deployment
and configuration
Add-足On Horizon for
EVO:RAIL
Consistent footprint and
deployment operations
IT-足in-足a-足box
Simplified user experience
ideal for non-足VMware
experts
Quick and easy
deployment and
configuration
Service Provider VPC
building block for MSP and
hosting
Consistently and easily
deployed on-足prem and off-足
prem (colo)
Quick and easy scale-足out
appliances to increase
capacity
ROBO
Virtual Private
Cloud
VDI
Server
Workloads
Use Cases
* Number of VMs varies based on VM profiles and hardware specifications
12. 1 Year
Coming
Soon
EVO:RAIL 1.2
vSphere Loyalty
Program
EVO:RAIL 1.1
Scale up to 8
appliances
VMworld
2014
EVO:RAIL 1.0
Dec
2014
3 QEPs
Shipping
8 QEPs
Shipping
Flexible
Hardware
Configurations
April
2015
May
2015
June
2015
July
2015
QEPs: Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners DELL, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, NetApp, SuperMicro, NetOne, Inspur
EVO:RAIL is 1 year old and it is only the start
EVO:RAIL 2.0
13. 則 Fully leverages vSphere & Virtual
SAN 6
則 Up to 40K IOPS/host (2x)
則 Scale to 16 appliances (2x)
則 64 server nodes
則 Up to 800 VMs/appliance* (2x)
則 VDS switch support enabling NSX
compatibility
則 Standalone EVO:RAIL Engine
virtual appliance
則 Enhanced UI
則 Easily integrate into environment
with existing vCenter Server
則 Up to 100 hardware configurations
則 Flexibility without compromising
the EVO:RAIL transformational
user experience
則 EVO:RAIL Manager for multi
cluster deployment
Multi-足appliance
Management
2x Performance
2x Scale
Architecture
Advances
Appliance Hardware
Flexibility
Preview: EVO:RAIL 2.0
* Number of VMs varies based on VM profiles and hardware specifications
15. vRealize Suite
vSOM ENT+ Horizon vCloud Suite
NSX
vCloud Air
Horizon Suite Add-足On for EVO:RAIL GP
EVO:RAIL
General Purpose
vSphere ENT+
EVO:RAIL
vSphere Loyalty Program
Add-足On
EVO:RAIL
Offerings
Other
VMware
Offerings
EVO:RAIL is fully
compatible with the
entire VMware portfolio
Leverage existing
vSphere licenses
purchased thru ELA
or thru channel
partners
General Purpose
(For new customers or projects)
vSphere Loyalty Program
(For existing VMware customers)
EVO:RAIL Engine
Virtual SAN
Log Insight
EVO:RAIL Engine
vSphere ENT+
Virtual SAN
Log Insight
vCenter Server
Hardware (2U/4Nodes) Hardware (2U/4Nodes)
Packaging Summary
17. 端 Ease of Use: Unified deployment and operations across physical and virtual
端 Performance: Over 2M IOPS per rack1
端 Scale: Elastic, linear scale out across multiple racks
端 Features: Only integrated offering providing SDDC-足in-足a-足box capabilities
端 Cost: 25-足40% upfront savings, 15-足35% savings in operating costs
1. Estimated based on published VSAN 6.0 performance and initial HW configs
Delivering the SDDC as an Integrated System