Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Vblock Infrastructure Packages - Integrated best-of-breed packages from VMware, Cisco and EMC


 IMAGINE a different model, a hybrid model, where best-of-breed companies in disciplines critical to IT – networking, servers, storage, and the virtualization layer – all come together to deliver IT to business in a new, accelerated, deceptively simple and in a startlingly cost effective way. IMAGINE no more. Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, are putting you on a new road to greater efficiency, control and choice. A faster road to unprecedented IT agility and unbounded business opportunities. With the Virtual Compute Environment’s Vblock experience.


Vblock Infrastructure Packages Scalable Platform for Building Solutions




 •    Vblock 2 (3000 – 6000+ VMs)
  • A high-end configuration - extensible to meet the most demanding IT needs
  • Typical use case: Business critical ERP, CRM systems 
   Vblock 1 (800 – 3000+ VMs)
  • A mid-sized configuration - broad range of IT capabilities for organizations of all sizes
  • Typical use case: Shared services – Email, File and Print, Virtual Desktops, etc.
 Vblock 0 (300 – 800+ VMs) ~1H 2010 

  • An entry-level configuration addresses small datacenters or organizations
  • Test/development platform for Partners and customers
 Virtualized Workload Environment Vblock 



Vblock 0 Components

Compute 


Cisco UCS B-series 


Network


Cisco Nexus 1000V

Cisco MDS 9506 


Storage


EMC CLARiiON CX4 


Hypervisor


VMware vSphere 4 


Management


EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager

VMware vCenter

EMC NaviSphere

EMC PowerPath

Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Fabric Manager
Vblock 1 Components


Compute

Cisco UCS B-series 

Network 

Cisco Nexus 1000V
Cisco MDS 9506 

Storage 

EMC Symmetrix V-Max 

 Hypervisor 

VMware vSphere 4
             
Management 

EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager
VMware vCenter
EMC Symmetrix Management console
EMC PowerPath
Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco Fabric Manager

Vblock 2 Components 


  •  Network and Storage Components Balanced systems performance, capability & capacity
  •     Compute Components High Density Compute Environment
  •    Accelerating Virtualization Accelerate IT Standardization and Simplification  Enable              
  •   Vblock: O/S and Application Support
Vblock accelerates virtualization of applications by standardizing IT infrastructure and IT processes 

  •          Broad range of O/S support
  •         Over 300 Enterprise Applications explicitly supported
Vblock applications 

SAP
VMware View 3.5
View 4 in-test
Oracle RAC
Exchange
SharePoint
Accelerate virtualization, standardize IT infrastructure

 Scalability Security Availability vNetwork vStorage vCompute VMware vSphere 4.0 vCenter 4.0 Infrastructure APIs Application APIs 

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