UPDATED 09:00 EDT / SEPTEMBER 15 2020

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Dell integrates VxRail with VMware Tanzu for faster on-premises Kubernetes deployments

Dell Technologies Inc. said today it’s integrating its Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure appliance with VMware Inc.’s Tanzu software.

The company said that means Dell EMC VxRail is the first appliance to offer a fully integrated Tanzu portfolio with reference architecture, cluster and private cloud offerings.

VMware Tanzu is a suite of tools released earlier this year that can be used to build, deploy and manage modern applications that are hosted in software containers – which isolate the individual components of those apps — and managed with the open-source Kubernetes orchestration software.

In a blog post, Chad Dunn, vice president of product management for VxRail, said the integration is a substantial development for Dell EMC VxRail users that will help them accelerate their application modernization efforts. “To help customers accelerate application modernization, VxRail delivers “Kubernetes at Cloud Speed” with multiple, fully integrated HCI infrastructure options to run vSphere with Tanzu,” Dunn said.

The integration with VMware Tanzu means customers will be able to develop new applications hosted on-premises, on a validated platform-as-a-service or container-as-a-service platform with Tanzu Architecture for VxRail. It can also help them to get started quickly with Kubernetes deployments of vSphere with Tanzu on VxRail, or deploy Kubernetes at scale with VMware Cloud Foundation on Tanzu on VxRail, Dunn said.

Dell EMC VxRail has been optimized to provide automated, infrastructure deployment and cloud-like resource pooling, elasticity, speed and programmability. That helps accelerate Kubernetes infrastructure delivery so developers can operate at a much faster pace, Dunn said. Meanwhile, users also get to choose from a variety of infrastructure delivery options that align with their organization’s operating model.

“VMware Tanzu on VxRail will provide customers with immediate value, delivering an easy-to-deploy and managed stack that runs both modern and traditional applications,” said Krish Prasad, general manager of vSphere at VMware. “VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu on VxRail will deliver significant operational efficiency for running Kubernetes workloads at scale in the data center, Cloud and at the Edge.”

In addition, VMware said the latest versions of its main vSphere virtualization offering, its hyperconverged, software-defined storage product vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation, a hybrid cloud platform for managing virtual machines and containers, all offer new features that should benefit Dell EMC VxRail customers.

For example, the latest vSphere and vSAN releases deliver new advancements in storage efficiency and security. One example of storage efficiency is HCI Mesh, which enables resource sharing across clusters, Dunn said.

“This is particularly exciting for our larger VxRail customers who may have spare capacity on one of their many clusters,” he wrote. “If they are running low on capacity in one cluster, HCI mesh enables them to utilize spare capacity from another cluster.”

VMware vSAN has also gained a new “compression only” setting for more demanding workloads that typically can’t take advantage of deduplication. Meanwhile, VMware Cloud Foundation has introduced a new remote cluster management feature that enables VxRail customers to extend workload domains to remote locations while maintaining consistent operations and full stack lifecycle management across the hybrid cloud to the edge, Dunn said.

“Customers seeking to adopt agile, cloud-native development methods need to quickly spin up Kubernetes environments on the same infrastructure already supporting their other business-critical applications,” said Jeff Boudreau, president, Dell Technologies Infrastructure Solutions Group. “As the first HCI solution with a fully integrated Tanzu portfolio, Dell EMC VxRail offers the fastest path to Kubernetes when deployed with vSphere with Tanzu and a fully integrated Kubernetes environment when deployed with VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu. These offerings exemplify the ongoing work between Dell Technologies and VMware to bring integrated, innovative solutions to customers.”

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