VxRailRocks

from sunny Madrid, Spain!

@virtualOlcoz hola Inigo! Gusto verte!

Hey @stu signing in from sunny Florida :)

@vGazza Un saludo amigo!!

@RobSteele good morning, Rob!

From Cairo, Egypt!

Good Morning @stu! Central Texas here, excited to see what's new!

from Santa Clara, CA

From Warsaw in Poland! Hey everyone!

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@RobSteele ah man, you are presenting? I might have to skip this one.. (hehe! hope you are doing well!)

Good afternoon from sunny Madrid – the city that never sleeps! Happy be part of this exciting #Extreme #HCI launch on CrowdChat!

Hi from sunny Denver, Colorado.

@segundoatdell Hola Segundo! Todo bien?

@vGazza Todo perfecto compañero! Vamos a por esos anuncios!

Holly Springs, NC

@segundoatdell vamos! Para los extremos con #HCI

Everyone has more exotic locations than me. I'm here in the VxRail emergency product management bunker in Boston!

Austin, TX

greetings from the Hudson Valley, NY

Chicago!

Sweden

joining from Panama... #vxrailrocks

Austin, Texas! Almost can see RR HQ from my home office!

#Boston

Dallas Texas

Santa Cruz, CA!

North Carolina

@vxCoronado Hola Jose! Gusto saludarte!

@TheRickReddy Hi Rick! How is the surf looking in Santa Cruz today?

Copenhagen, Denmark

Santiago de Chile.

Perth, Australia

Hi from Boston, MA

A1: #VDI continues as pillar #HCI use case - even accelerated due to extensive pandemic #WFH deployments. In parallel clearly expanded into wide range of workloads from business critical (#SAP #SQL #Oracle #AI #ML) to next gen (#PKS, #Containers #Kubernetes #NoSQL)

first #VxRail customers in Brazil and Latin America 3-4 years ago were mostly consolidating generic virtual workloads rather than deploying #VDI and it was easy to jump to production workloads as the nodes got more powerful

- The power of “operational freedom” is real with VxRail despite the workload.

I've seen a push to try to use HCI for more general pods. Customers I talk to still prefer a 3-tier architecture for general pods. HCI has become a great "appliance" architecture and a wonderful platform for SMB.

@smchampion and if 2020 will finally be the #YearOfVDI then #VxRail will be perfect solution!

Shannon is right. And it's with this consistent operations experience that allows customers to use VxRail as the foundation for not just workloads, but also their hybrid cloud! Consistent infrastructure with consistent operations = WIN! :)

VDI of course is back in vogue with the #WFH pivot

@vWhipperSnapper Consistent infrastructure matters, which is inclusive of the processing technology. VMware optimizations for Intel processors on #VxRail allow for seamless migration for hybrid cloud. #Intel #iamintel

Absolutely! #HCI has entered a new era conquering #Databases, Logging, #Analytics, #AI, #ML, #DataProtection, file sharing/storage, #Edge computing, #Ruggerized environments, #VDI, next-gen test/devops within #VMs #containers #Kubernetes – mix and match!

@CTOAdvisor with @DellTech portfolio you can have it all. #HCI and @DellEMCStorage Validated Design workload domains side by side and it becomes a workload placement conversation.

The biggest pain point has been disjointed operating models. VCF has promise but HCI in the enterprise has been just another platform to manage. When you have VMAX/PowerMAX, Isilon, and VxRAIL/RACK that's a lot of overhead.

We have seen large customers start at the edge and then allow #VxRail to proliferate into their core and we have also seen the opposite. The economics of HCI make sense in both places

@dvellante maybe 2020 will finally be the #YearOfVDI

@CTOAdvisor Get the best of both worlds with FC cards in your #VxRail

@CTOAdvisor great points, we see customers leveraging both vxrail and 3-tier, and as they modernizing applications more and more tends to land on vxrail.

Would love to know how many folks are leveraging the Fibre Channel interfaces.

@CTOAdvisor you can have @DellEMCStorage #PowerMax Validated Design solution with @vmwarevcf now

@RobSteele @CTOAdvisor - that's a great point! You don't have to buy into HCI 100%. That's part of the value Dell Technologies provides - the right platform for the right solution!

@CTOAdvisor @vGazza With DTCP, today, customers can leverage the power of the @DellTech portfolio and augment their VxRail HCI infrastructure with external storage all in the same environment! It becomes an AND conversation not an OR. Win win!

Deploying #VxRail for mission critical apps & workloads has become even more compelling w/ @vmwarevcf on #VxRail where apps can be deployed using any combination of #VMs, #containers & #Kubernetes - bridging the management gap & making hybrid cloud a reality!

@RobSteele If customers can standardize on an HCI platform, there's clear hybrid-infrastructure/cloud benefits. It's tough to get consensus on a single platform within large organizations. Things like application certification remain a challenge.

VxRail has a common control plane with storage through vVols and VCF. It's a powerful and unique way to extend consistent operations across HCI and storage.

@vWhipperSnapper I have no idea what DTCP is.

@CTOAdvisor absolutely! Thats why larger orgs typically have both.

@CTOAdvisor Dell Tech Cloud Platform

@CTOAdvisor DTCP = Dell Technologies Cloud Platform (VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail)

I don't know about the other #VxRail team members but my family is really sick of me pointing at a business, a tv show, a movie, a car etc and saying, "Guess what? Rail Customer" :-) The diversity of use cases is so cool.

@VXchad same here!! It's even made it to conversations with my parents.

@VXchad :D

Databases are now the leading workload on HCI