Dell EMC Cloud integrates with VMware NFV Solution to accelerate production deployment for Service Providers

Dell EMC and VMware have pre-integrated and pre-validated Dell EMC cloud infrastructure hardware and the OpenStack-ready VMware vCloud NFV platform to accelerate time to deployment and help reduce the overall cost of production network functions virtualization (NFV) for communications service providers.

The Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware will help make it easier for CSPs to build their own operational readiness clusters and design their initial offerings for end-user customers. The pre-validated solution minimizes adoption time and significantly reduces time to service. This solution is built upon the need for virtualized infrastructure while delivering a turnkey offering that, if necessary, can be fully customized to meet specific deployment requirements. It is based on industry-leading hardware and software, and open architectures from Dell EMC and VMware, and will deliver proven, integrated foundation for an NFV environment. With this consistent, uniform building block and a large ecosystem of certified partner technologies, CSPs will be able to deploy a flexible NFV environment that helps keep pace with the evolving communications market.

The Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware is an integrated hardware and software solution. It includes open and standards-based Dell EMC cloud infrastructure hardware (compute, networking) powered by Intel Xeon and the VMware vCloud NFV platform with VMware vSAN or Dell EMC ScaleIO. Customers will have the option of deploying the integrated offering with either VMware Integrated OpenStack-Carrier Edition or VMware vCloud Director as the virtual infrastructure manager.

VMware vCloud NFV is an ETSI-compliant fully integrated, modular and multi-tenancy NFV platform. The vCloud NFV platform combines a highly available, carrier-grade network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) with Day 2 operations management and service assurance capabilities to drive successful NFV deployments and operations. VMware Ready for NFV provides CSPs with the confidence that virtual network functions from the leading providers have been certified to seamlessly and effectively deploy, run, and interoperate with VMware vCloud NFV. To date, more than 40 VNF partners have been certified on vCloud NFV.

The Dell EMC Ready Solutions Portfolio for Service Providers contains a family of pre-validated, pre-tested solutions geared expressly for Service Provider environments and applications. It is designed for accelerating production-ready, revenue-generating environments. The portfolio includes Ready Nodes comprising of individual Dell EMC platforms, which are typically PowerEdge servers based on Intel Xeon processors, outfitted with ecosystem partner software and Ready Bundles comprising multiple Dell EMC platforms (typically server, storage and networking elements) combined with ecosystem partner software.

The flexible Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware will be available in different management software and storage configurations beginning this month.