Brocade VDX Switches and Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure Provide Seamless Data Center Experience
Brocade today announced an alliance with Nutanix to help enterprises seamlessly deploy hyperconverged infrastructures. Brocade® VDX® switches have received Nutanix Ready validation demonstrating solution compatibility and interoperability with Nutanix systems. Deploying the Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP) and Brocade VDX switches with Brocade VCS® Fabric technology delivers best-in-class capabilities that address customer requirements for virtualization and specific workloads such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and big data analytics.
Hyperconvergence tightly integrates compute, storage and virtualization using commodity hardware to bring simplified operation, high availability and scalability to the data center. According to Gartner, “By 2018, converged infrastructure systems categorized as ‘hyperconverged infrastructure’ will represent 35 percent of total converged infrastructure shipments.”1
“The combination of Brocade VDX switches and Nutanix XCP has revolutionized our data centers,” said Jim Root, chief information officer, LAKE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. “We now have advanced data center computing at a remarkably low total cost of ownership, with functionality we previously never dreamed of owning.”
Nutanix XCP and Brocade VDX switches help customers deploy business-critical workloads as well as VDI deployments and big data analytics. In addition to realizing significant performance and efficiency gains, organizations using Brocade VCS Fabric technology can seamlessly scale out their networks with a simple, flat fabric-based architecture that:
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Forms and heals automatically, delivering unmatched simplicity and resiliency
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Maximizes network resiliency with built-in redundancy
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Supports automated, hypervisor-agnostic VM discovery and mobility
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Delivers high-speed replication performance in and between data centers
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Improves visibility for faster troubleshooting