Dell EMC HCI solutions now available on PowerEdge Servers

Dell EMC’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) portfolio has received a substantial boost with the availability of Dell EMC HCI appliances on the newly-designed, award-winning Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th-generation servers.

With this latest PowerEdge server platform, designed and optimized for HCI, customers of all sizes can expect even more powerful and predictable performance with even greater configurability for hosting a wide-range of mission-critical software applications on Dell EMC VxRail and XC Series appliances.

“Customers transforming their IT are increasingly turning to hyperconverged infrastructure as an ideal foundation for simplifying IT today and for the future,” said Anshuman Rai, Director – Sales, Converged Platform & Solutions Division, Dell EMC. “With HCI designed as a software-defined infrastructure, achieving ultimate performance and reliability relies on tightly engineering software with optimal hardware and its configurations. Dell EMC’s turnkey, pre-integrated, tested and validated HCI appliances enable customers to simply stand-up and scale IT infrastructure, backed by trusted dependability and performance, to help IT organizations more easily meet the growing demands of their businesses.”

DELL EMC now combines the simplicity, agility and scalability of its industry-leading HCI portfolio with the power and flexibility of next-generation servers, designed and optimized for HCI. This offers greater performance and reliability to meet customer’s demands as HCI moves into core data centers and is relied on to run a wider range of applications and workloads.

Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th-generation servers, based on Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family, include 150 custom requirements for software-defined storage (SDS) built-in, making it uniquely optimized for HCI. This includes improved support for SSDs in scale-out deployments; faster initialization and streamlined data storage management; increased drive cooling for improved reliability; and, optional, common user interfaces across server and HCI platforms for Dell EMC systems management capabilities.

Dell EMC HCI appliances include the Dell EMC VxRail Appliance family, powered by VMware vSAN and jointly engineered with VMware, and the Dell EMC XC Series, designed for customers seeking choice of hypervisors, including Microsoft Hyper-V, or multi-hypervisor environments. These HCI appliances help simplify the entire lifecycle with advanced automation – with unique software that simplifies deployment, management, scaling, support and maintenance – making it easier for customers from day one.

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