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