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Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware
The Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware is a turnkey solution optimized to simplify and accelerate production deployments. With this solution, Dell EMC has built a fully integrated and validated solution that enables service providers to immediately launch their own services on top of this Network Function Virtualization (NFV) platform, minimizing, if not eliminating, the need to apply engineering resources to develop their own infrastructure.
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The Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware combines hardware, software, and Dell EMC engineering and is designed to create a more flexible, scalable, and agile platform for CSPs. It includes open standards-based Dell EMC cloud infrastructure hardware (compute, networking) and a choice of a Virtual Infrastructure Manager (vCloud Director or VMware Integrated OpenStack) with vSAN or Dell EMC ScaleIO.
The solution is pre-validated with VMware vCloud NFV Platform, and it encompasses both hardware and software. This specific software bundle is optimized around Dell EMC cloud infrastructure hardware.
The pre-validated solution minimizes adoption time and significantly reduces time to service from weeks to days/hours. In addition, the solution provides carrier-grade reliability to meet SLA requirements.
At its core, the VMware vCloud NFV Platform includes the vSphere virtualization platform, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Director or VMware Integrated OpenStack for the VIM, and vRealize Operations for operations management. Deploying VMware vSphere as host nodes and virtual machines will allow the gaining performance, security, and operational advantages.
As an alternative to vSAN, Dell EMC ScaleIO can be used as the software-defined storage option for the Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware if it is more suitable for your storage needs.
In addition, there are two VIM options available with the Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware. You can select either VMware vCloud Director or VMware Integrated OpenStack depending on which option best fits your VIM requirements.
Dell EMC NFV Ready Bundle for VMware benefits:
- Ease of ordering: The full bundle is orderable from Dell EMC. No need to purchase vCloud NFV Platform software separately.
- Choice: VMware vCloud NFV provides a choice of Virtual Infrastructure Manager, giving you the flexibility to deploy on OpenStack or using vCloud Director.
- Long lifecycle deployment: The solution includes long-life Intel® Xeon® processors which reduces your investment risk and protects your investment in the solution for the long-term.
- Seamless customer experience: Dell EMC provides a single point of contact for pre-sales and post-sales support for the entire solution and length of your deployment for peace of mind.
- World-class professional services: The solution includes Dell EMC professional services that spans consulting, deployment, and design support to guide your deployment needs.
- Customizable solution: The solution is prescriptive, but it can be customized to address each customer’s unique virtual network function (VNF) workload requirements.
