Dell Technologies announces its EMC VxRail Hyperconverged Infrastructure appliances

Dell Technologies has announced that Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure appliances, powered by VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN software, are certified by SAP for SAP HANA production environments. The certifications, for both VxRail and VMware software, reflect VMware and Dell EMC’s continued leadership in the rapidly-growing HCI industry.

Dell EMC VxRail is the industry’s only jointly engineered, turnkey, fully integrated HCI appliance with VMware, powered by VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN and pre-tested and pre-configured with the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. These appliances are the easiest and fastest way to simplify a VMware environment for HCI with seamless integration with existing VMware tools. VxRail offers simplicity of lifecycle management and scalability with a cost-effective HCI solution that delivers multiple compute, memory, storage, network and graphics options to match any use-case and cover a wide variety of applications and workloads.

Sanjay Poonen, Chief Operating Officer, Customer Operations, VMware, says, “Customers can now get the operational benefits of a fully integrated stack from leading vendors of hyper-converged infrastructure, Dell EMC and VMware, to support their mission-critical, performance-sensitive SAP HANA environments. VMware is proud to be working with the leading applications company in the world, SAP, to provide a more secure and flexible digital foundation, to help customers drive a sustainable competitive advantage.”

Gil Shneorson, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Dell EMC VxRail, says, “Dell EMC VxRail makes IT transformation with HCI as simple as possible for customers to adopt and grow. As customers increasingly use VxRail for core data center workloads, this certification makes VxRail, already architected for in-memory database applications, an excellent HCI solution for SAP HANA customers.”

Martin Heisig, SAP HANA Technology Innovation Network, says, “SAP has shared a long-time partnership with VMware and Dell EMC, and together, we’ve enabled customers to transform their businesses. Today’s news highlights the depth and breadth of technologies Dell Technologies and SAP are offering to enable companies to optimize their SAP solutions with greater agility, high availability, lower costs and easy provisioning.”

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