Dell delivers Software-Defined Storage solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL

Dell brings unified file and block storage services for VMware Virtual SAN™ environments, adding network file system (NFS) and server message block (SMB) access for VMware EVO: RAIL™

  • Thursday, 16th October 2014 Posted 10 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Dell will now ship NexentaConnect and NexentaStor solutions with Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL.


Dell’s portfolio of enterprise technology solutions includes best-of-breed hardware and software, converged technologies and infrastructure, and integrated systems. As customers continually look for ways to simplify data center management, Dell is expanding capabilities of the Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL, via two appliances:
· Dell Engineered Solution for VMware EVO:RAIL, Virtual Infrastructure Edition – A general-purpose solution which enables customers to quickly stand up and scale-out VMware-based virtualized instances
· Dell Engineered Solution for VMware EVO: RAIL, VMware Horizon® View™ Edition – A VDI-specific edition which helps customers of all sizes quickly stand up VDI deployments


By offering Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL customers pre-integration of Nexenta Software-Defined Storage solutions with EVO: RAIL, Dell enables:
· Full-featured SMB and NFS services for VMware’s Virtual SAN offering with NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, for EVO: RAIL;
· Acceleration and automation of VMware Horizon 6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructures with NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon to help the automation and I/O acceleration for VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI); and
· In-line data de-duplication snapshots and compression with NexentaStor 4.1, and support for Dell Storage platforms incorporated in EVO: RAIL.