FD Insights Issue 8 | Page 33

What is EVO:RAIL? - VMware EVO:RAIL is the first 100% VMware powered hyper-converged infrastructure appliance Mware EVO:RAIL combines VMware compute, networking, and storage resources into a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to create a simple, easy to deploy, all-in-one solution offered by our partners, such as EMC. V What does EVO:RAIL do? EVO:RAIL enables power-on to VM creation in minutes, radically easy VM deployment, easy non-disruptive patch and upgrades and simplified management; it also acts as a scalable Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC) building block, in that it also delivers compute, networking, storage, and management to empower private / hybrid-cloud, end-user computing, test or development, and branch office environments. Because it in essence builds on, and draws from, the proven technology of VMware vSphere, vCenter Server as well as VMware Virtual SAN, EVO:RAIL delivers the first hyper-converged infrastructure appliance 100% powered by VMware software. It also purports a highly resilient design, starting with four independent hosts and a distributed Virtual SAN datastore, which will ensure that you experience no application downtime during planned maintenance or during disk, network, or host failures. A common tagline at VMware is ‘infrastructure at the speed of innovation’, something that the company believes it can deliver to customers with EVO:RAIL by helping them meet accelerating business demands by simplifying infrastructure design with predictable sizing and scaling, by streamlining purchase and deployment w