23 | Dell EMC VxRail Appliance TechBook
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Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor:
Powerful processing for VxRail
Intel® Xeon® Scalable platforms are
powerful infrastructure that represents an
evolutionary leap forward in agility and
scalability. Disruptive by design, it sets a
new benchmark in platform convergence
and capabilities across compute, storage,
memory, network and security. An
innovative approach to platform design in
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors unlocks
the power of scalable performance for
today’s data centers and communications
networks—from the smallest workloads to
your most mission-critical applications.
With up to 28 cores delivering highly
enhanced per core performance, and
significant increases in memory bandwidth
(six memory channels) and I/O bandwidth
(48 PCIe lanes), your most data-hungry,
latency-sensitive applications such as in-
memory databases and high-performance
computing will see notable improvements
enabled by denser compute and faster
access to large data volumes. And the latest
generation processors designated with an
‘M” can support denser memory, with up to
1536GB per processor.
The convergence of compute, memory,
network, and storage performance
combined with software ecosystem
optimizations make Intel® Xeon® Scalable
platforms ideal for fully virtualized, software-
defined data centers that dynamically self-
provision resources—on-premises, through
the network, and in the public cloud—based
on workload needs.
VxRail node storage disk drives
Storage capacity for the VxRail Appliance is
provided by disk drives that have been
integrated, tested, and validated by Dell
EMC. Most VxRail configurations use 2.5”
form-factor SSDs and mechanical HDDs,
and a configuration that uses 3.5” form-factor drives is also available for dense-storage
requirements. Disks drives are logically organized into disk groups. Disk groups are configured
in two ways:
Intel Inside®. Trusted clouds outside.
Intel innovation is driving the
modernization and hybrid cloud
transformation of the traditional
enterprise data center.
Migrating to the newest generation of
high-performing and energy-efficient
Intel-based hardware tunes a data center
for highly optimized performance across
a broad set of enterprise workloads while
lowering costs and improving resource
utilization.
Over time, evolving to a software-defined
infrastructure (SDI) across all the critical
domains of the data center
(compute/storage/network) will deliver
critical automation, orchestration and
telemetry capabilities to help businesses
unlock the full capabilities of multi-cloud
computing.
With modern, industry-standard Intel®
servers and technologies that run on
software-defined infrastructure, you can
seamlessly manage an environment that
supports development and delivery of
cloud-native applications and mission-
critical workloads on secure private
clouds, while also integrating with public
clouds, many of which already run on
Intel® architecture.