REDEFINE SIMPLICITY TOP REASONS: EMC VSPEX BLUE FOR VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS

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1 REDEFINE SIMPLICITY AGILE. SCALABLE. TRUSTED. TOP REASONS: EMC VSPEX BLUE FOR VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS Redefine Simplicity: Agile, Scalable and Trusted. Mid-market and Enterprise customers as well as Managed Service Providers (MSP) are looking for a simpler, more flexible, automated, and dynamic infrastructure that will better align IT resources with continually changing business demands. EMC VSPEX BLUE accelerates time-to-value, offering customers the fastest, lowest risk path to virtualized environments. 1. HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE EMC VSPEX BLUE redefines simplicity and enables IT transformation, integrating virtualization, compute, storage, networking and data protection in an agile, scalable, easy to manage hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA). Available as a single all-inclusive product, EMC VSPEX BLUE dramatically lowers risk and speed time to production, enabling customers to go from power-on to VM creation in 15 minutes. Designed for simplicity, fully automated management and orchestration, patches and upgrades, the EMC VSPEX BLUE architecture is a scale-out system consisting of modular Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) building blocks that scale linearly, ideal for virtualized environments.

2 2. BUSINESS AGILITY EMC VSPEX BLUE drives strategic agility and competitive business advantage by empowering IT to build, deploy, scale, and maintain their hyper-converged infrastructure appliance through an agile operational framework, enabling IT to respond more quickly and efficiently to changing business needs. EMC VSPEX BLUE, a truly converged appliance, powered by Intel Xeon processor technology, offers the fastest and lowest-risk path to new application and technology adoption, optimal deployment and consistent operations across Mid-market, Enterprise and MSP environments. Automating the provisioning of the complete deployment life-cycle enables business and IT organizations with agility, operational simplicity and reduced risk. 3. LINEAR SCALABILITY EMC VSPEX BLUE greatly reduces the time burden of complex advanced planning and eliminates over-purchasing to accommodate future capacity needs, lowering upfront investment in infrastructure. You can start small with one 2U/4-node appliance and add as many as three additional appliances up to a total of four quickly and effortlessly. EMC VSPEX BLUE automatically discovers and non-disruptively adds each new appliance; the infrastructure automatically rebalances resources and workloads across the cluster, creating a single resource pool. What s more, to maximize flexibility, the EMC Cloud Array gateway lets you efficiently access all the on-demand public cloud storage you need. A sophisticated bandwidth scheduler, data reduction technology and on-site dynamic disk cache eliminate latency to minimize network impact. Multi-layer encryption and local key management guard against unauthorized access.

3 4. EASE OF DEPLOYMENT EMC VSPEX BLUE offers a fast, low-risk way to deploy infrastructure supporting virtual environments - accelerating agility and time-to-value by getting you from power-on to provisioning 100% VMware-based virtual machines (VMs) in minutes. Creating VMs with the VMware EVO:RAIL TM management engine requires a few simple steps. Select from pre-defined small, medium or large VMs. Specify a guest OS, virtual local area network (vlan), security options and data protection level. VMware EVO:RAIL notifies users of applicable software patches and upgrades, one click upgrades are performed and are completely non-disruptive. EMC VSPEX BLUE eliminates more than 200 manual configuration tasks and workflows, simplifying configuration and administration, improving the productivity of your team. 5. SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT EMC VSPEX BLUE through VMware EVO:RAIL management engine delivers a new, simplified, management experience that abstracts complexity and automates administrative tasks. An intuitive management dashboard drives day-to-day operations addressing the requirements of both non-technical and technical VMware power users. Minimal IT experience is required to deploy, configure and manage EMC VSPEX BLUE, allowing it to be used where there is limited or no IT staff on-site. For power users, all vcenter and vsphere interfaces and APIs are still in place enabling integration with existing management systems. VMware EVO:RAIL management provides health monitoring of CPU, memory, storage and VM usage for individual nodes, complete appliances and the entire cluster. It streamlines log collection, provides notifications and tracks tasks, handles licensing and offers language choice for globalization.

4 6. HIGHLY AVAILABLE EMC VSPEX BLUE integrates both software and hardware resiliency to ensure near zero application downtime during planned maintenance or during disk, network or host failures. Leveraging proven capabilities of vshpere HA, vmotion, DRS and Virtual SAN to ensure high availability at both the compute and storage layers. Four independent ESXi hosts allow applications to non-disruptively move to another host during planned maintenance or failure. Each host has dual 10GbE network connections for redundant network connectivity, providing high performance and resiliency. 7. PROVEN DATA PROTECTION EMC s industry leading Data Protection safeguards your environment with higher system, application and data availability. EMC VSPEX BLUE features EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, which provides local and remote hypervisorbased replication and continuous data protection for per-vm recovery to any point in time in addition to automated disaster recovery orchestration. Further, VMware vshpere Data Protection Advanced, based on EMC Avamar technology, offers centralized backup and recovery with sophisticated deduplication capabilities for network-efficient storage and backup.

5 8. TRUSTED EMC FEDERATION VISIT THE EMC STORE Get a quote for EMC VSPEX BLUE today. Visit store.emc.com/vspexblue5 for more information. The Federation is comprised of EMC, VMware, Pivotal and RSA, each with a specific mission, but all strategically aligned to deliver solutions based on the new IT agenda. At the heart of EMC VSPEX BLUE appliance is an EMC designed Intel Xeon processor-based x86 server running VMware EVO:RAIL software, which leverages readily scalable software-defined data center (SDDC) building blocks. Consolidating compute, network, storage and management into a single appliance eliminates the need for complex integration and accelerates bringing a new application online. Delivering predictable performance with each appliance allows simplified, scalable virtualized infrastructure,making EMC VSPEX BLUE well suited for virtual environments. CONTACT US To learn more about how VSPEX solutions can help solve your business and IT challenges, contact your local representative or authorized reseller or visit us at EMC2, EMC, and the EMC logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. VMware is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc., in the United States and other jurisdictions. Copyright 2015 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Published in the USA. January 2015 Top Reasons Handout H13767 EMC believes the information in this document is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice.