Back at the beginning of the summer I attended DockerCon out in Seattle. EMC was there in not one, but two booths. The first booth represented EMC {code} which I talked about in the previous post. The second one was hosted by EMC proper where, besides software, they showed their VxRack.
VxRack is EMC’s hyper-converged platform designed for the data center. The platform is EMC’s preferred platform for Native Hybrid Cloud, a turnkey Pivotal Cloud Foundry developer platform.
Mike Steinberg of EMC was manning the booth and gave me a guided tour of VxRack. Check it out:
Some of the ground Mike covers
- Two flavors: ScaleIO software defined storage or VMware Virtual SAN.
- The compute is on the same nodes as the storage
- Software layer: VMware or bare metal
- The Native Hybrid Cloud = Pivotal cloud Foundry + pre-built dashboards and management instrumentation
- A view from the back:
- Configured to your specs and it shows up good to go
- Networking and x86 nodes (3 flavors to choose from)
- What the future holds for VxRack
Extra-credit reading
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry Is Not Just for New Apps Anymore – Fortune
- Native Hybrid Cloud Data sheet
- EMC ScaleIO Data Sheet
- EMC {code} Blog
Pau for now…
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