EMC transforms EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure

The predictable performance of VSPEX has now been further enhanced with the inclusion of the new VNX 5400, 5600 and 5800 Series as part of the solution designed to enable support of up to 1000 virtual machines, 2x more than ever before for VSPEX workloads at twice the value, EMC said.

These new VSPEX configurations powered by VNX further speed transformation to the cloud by driving simplicity and offering more VMs per system, thereby reducing time-intensive planning, sizing and configuration by administrators, the firm said.

Eighteen enhanced and new VSPEX configurations, representing popular use cases, leverage the new VNX systems announced recently as well as a number of advanced data protection capabilities. Among the enhanced configurations are: 

 

- VSPEX for Citrix end user computing is being enhanced with Citrix XenDesktop 7 – Expected to be available in the second half of 2013.

- Enhanced data protection capabilities for VSPEX with Avamar 7 and new Data Domain DD2500 DD4200 systems – Expected to be generally available in the second half of 2013.

- VSPEX for VMware private cloud is being enhanced with VMware vSphere 5.5 – Scheduled to be available this month upon VMware vSphere 5.5 general availability.

- VSPEX for VMware end user computing is being enhanced with VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2013.

- VSPEX for virtualized Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and VSPEX for virtualized Oracle 11g – Available immediately. 

- VSPEX for virtualized Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 and VSPEX for virtualized Microsoft Exchange 2013 – Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2013.

Four new configurations across two new solutions expand the benefits of VSPEX within customer environments. They include:

- End User Computing – Three new VSPEX configurations for end user computing with Citrix XenDesktop 7 on Microsoft Hyper-V – Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2013.

- Continuous Replication – VSPEX Proven Infrastructure for continuous replication with RecoverPoint – Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2013.

Mr. Nathakorn Potejanasaj, Country Manager, EMC Information Systems (Thailand) Co., Ltd. said “VSPEX is a simple, efficient and flexible reference architecture solution that has accelerated time to value for over 3000 customers globally already.  The solutions help ensure that our customers can continue to easily and quickly deploy the latest best-of-breed cloud technology to accelerate their journey to the cloud. ”