Dell EMC Solutions for Azure Stack HCI
Dell EMC Solutions for Azure Stack HCI delivers a fully productized, validated and supported hyperconverged (HCI) solution that enables organizations to modernize their infrastructure for improved application uptime and performance, simplified management and operations, and lower total cost of ownership. Azure Stack HCI combines the software- defined compute, storage and networking features of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 with AX nodes from Dell Technologies to offer the high performance, scalable and secure foundation needed for a software-defined infrastructure. Comprehensive management with Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Windows Admin Center, rapid time to value with Dell EMC ProDeploy options, and solution-level Dell EMC ProSupport complete this modern portfolio
Key Key Features
- AX nodes from Dell Technologies offer:
-- Flexible and scalable infrastructure configurations across three different models for varying application performance, capacity or location needs
-- Pre-configured and optimized features such as caching and storage tiering
-- Hardware innovations such as RDMA networking, Intel Optane persistent memory, high performance SSD and NVMe drives - Windows Server 2019 delivers new improved feature set including data deduplication, increased scalability, mirror accelerated parity, cluster sets and persistent memory support.
- Dell EMC OpenManage Integrations for Microsoft Windows Admin Center (WAC) and Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) simplify management, configuration and monitoring.
- Dell EMC Networking 10/25/100GbE switches are fully qualified to enable a complete hyperconverged infrastructure solution.
- Dell EMC ProDeploy and Dell EMC ProSupport service deliver professional onsite deployment and onecontact technical support.
Specifications
Storage Configuration | Hybrid (SSD + HDD) | NVMe AIC + HDD | All NVMe | NVMe + HDD | NVMe + SSD | All flash | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chassis Configurations | 12 x 3.5” front bay + 4 x 3.5” mid bay + 2 x 3. 5” rear bay drives. | 12 x 3.5” front bay drives | 12 x 3.5” front bay drives with 2 NVMe AICs | 24 x 2.5” front bay drives, with up to 12 NVMe | 24 x 2.5” front bay drives, including 4 NVME | 24 x 2.5” front bay drives, including 4 NVME | 24 x 2.5” front bay Chassis drives |
Storage for Cache WI = write intensive MU = mixed use | Up to 6 x 800 GB to 3.84 TB SAS (WI/MU) / SATA MU SSDs | 2 or 4 x 800 GB to 3.84 TB SAS (WI/MU) / SATA (MU) SSDs | 2 x 1.6 TB to 6.4 TB PCIe SSD NVMe MU Add-inCards (AIC) | - | 2 - 4 x 1.6 TB to 6.4 TB PCIe SSD NVMe MU (drives) | 2 - 4 x 1.6 TB to 6.4 TB PCIe SSD NVMe MU (drives) | - |
Min/Max Raw Storage | 24 to 192 TB | 8 to 128 TB | 24 to 192 TB | 6.4 to 76.8 TB | 8 to 48 TB | 3.84 to 153.6 TB | 3.2 to 184.32TB |
Processors | Dual Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Select Silver/Gold/Platinum options) |
Memory | 96 GB to 1.5 TB (16/32/64 GB DDR on 8,12,16 or 24 DDR4 DIMM slots; supports RDIMM /LRDIMM; speeds up to 2666MT/s) |
Storage controller | Internal HBA330 12Gbps SAS HBA Controller (NON-RAID) |
Internal Boot Storage | BOSS with dual M.2 240GB and 480GB (RAID 1) |
Network cards | Add-in-cards: 1 or 2x *QLogic QL41262 (Dual Port 25GbE) *[4x on selected models] or 1 or 2x Mellanox ConnectX-4 LX (Dual Port 25GbE) or 1 or 2x *Mellanox Connect X5 (Dual Port 100GbE) *[On selected models] Network daughter card (NDC): Dual Port / Quad Port10GbE + Dual Port 1GbE (Intel, Broadcom, Qlogic FastLinQ) |
HCI Software | Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition with Hyper-V, Storage Spaces Direct, SDN Microsoft Windows Admin Center (WAC) Microsoft Systems Center |
Out of Band Management | Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) 9 Enterprise or Datacenter for 14G IPMI 2.0 compliant Quick Sync2 (Optional) |
Integrations | Dell EMC OpenManagement Integration for Windows Admin Center Dell EMC OpenManagement Integration for Microsoft Systems Center |
Services | ProSupport and ProSupport Plus, ProDeploy, ProDeploy Plus with add-on for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI ProSupport for Software for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Consulting Services for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI |
Security | Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (optional) |
Power Supplies | Dual, Hot-plug, Redundant Power Supply (1+1), 1100W or 1100W - 48VDC only Dual, Hot-plug, Redundant Power Supply (1+1), 1600W Dual, Hot-plug, Redundant Power Supply (1+1),2000W |
Form Factor | 2U Rack |