To answer your question: to get more market server share. And second, the Dell M1000 Platform offer direct connectivity to Cisco FI. So a replacement of UCS 5108 is possible.
Unfortunately this does not make sense. 1) You're saying you don't want to change a winning formula, yet you just changed the compute part to Dell in two(VxRack & VxRail) of the three solutions on the white board. 2) Dell has a blade chassis that would fit and work well with the V/X/block. Why would you want to keep using a rivals hardware if you didn't have to. The fact is the V/X/block was designed at VCE(VMware/Cisco/EMC). That company no longer exists, and has been merged into Dell. If it was designed today I'm sure they'd have picked Dells blade chassis. So, I think this is all about making customers feel safe, so they'll keep buying those systems for a little while longer. Yet anyone with a clue realizes they're gone within a year or two. I'm guessing they're either working hard on updating the software to work with a V/X/block 2.0 that has Dell blades, and/or will drop the whole solution in favor of VxRack/VxRail.
Tali, The HCI components did not change from Cisco to Dell. Just to clarify, they changed from Quanta to Dell, and honestly Dell PowerEdge servers are a better fit for that particular set of solutions. As for the other, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for the Cisco networking or compute to be pushed out of the blocks. There is still a very strong relationship in place between CPSD and Cisco.
Read what I wrote again, I did not say that they changed from Cisco to Dell. Its obvious that VxBlock is on the way out. In EHC they will start supporting VxRail as a foundation in 1 week from now. And VxRack is soon to follow. Both VxRail and VxRack are much easier to handle than VxBlock. AND they are both based on Dell compute rather than Cisco.
A Can of Spam Dell is pushing only for VxRail these days. Haven’t had them suggest anything other in deals the last year or so. I’m working for a very large outsourcing company so we do a lot of business with them, Cisco and Hitachi when it comes to the physical stuff.
@@MrTaliz the reason they didn't immediately eject them is because they have a lot of legacy customer who already have a UCS footprint and you can't just immediately drop a server line or you WILL piss off your enterprise customers this is something you just don't do .
To answer your question: to get more market server share. And second, the Dell M1000 Platform offer direct connectivity to Cisco FI. So a replacement of UCS 5108 is possible.
Hello Thomas, long time no see :)
Cisco FIs are junk the whole VCE platform is junk.
Unfortunately this does not make sense.
1) You're saying you don't want to change a winning formula, yet you just changed the compute part to Dell in two(VxRack & VxRail) of the three solutions on the white board.
2) Dell has a blade chassis that would fit and work well with the V/X/block. Why would you want to keep using a rivals hardware if you didn't have to.
The fact is the V/X/block was designed at VCE(VMware/Cisco/EMC). That company no longer exists, and has been merged into Dell.
If it was designed today I'm sure they'd have picked Dells blade chassis.
So, I think this is all about making customers feel safe, so they'll keep buying those systems for a little while longer.
Yet anyone with a clue realizes they're gone within a year or two.
I'm guessing they're either working hard on updating the software to work with a V/X/block 2.0 that has Dell blades, and/or will drop the whole solution in favor of VxRack/VxRail.
Tali,
The HCI components did not change from Cisco to Dell. Just to clarify, they changed from Quanta to Dell, and honestly Dell PowerEdge servers are a better fit for that particular set of solutions. As for the other, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for the Cisco networking or compute to be pushed out of the blocks. There is still a very strong relationship in place between CPSD and Cisco.
Read what I wrote again, I did not say that they changed from Cisco to Dell.
Its obvious that VxBlock is on the way out. In EHC they will start supporting VxRail as a foundation in 1 week from now.
And VxRack is soon to follow.
Both VxRail and VxRack are much easier to handle than VxBlock. AND they are both based on Dell compute rather than Cisco.
@@MrTaliz Not knowing enough about this and viewing your comment from 2 years int he future, how does this prediction hold up?
A Can of Spam Dell is pushing only for VxRail these days. Haven’t had them suggest anything other in deals the last year or so.
I’m working for a very large outsourcing company so we do a lot of business with them, Cisco and Hitachi when it comes to the physical stuff.
@@MrTaliz the reason they didn't immediately eject them is because they have a lot of legacy customer who already have a UCS footprint and you can't just immediately drop a server line or you WILL piss off your enterprise customers this is something you just don't do .
The sad thing is I am a hardware tech for these systems and even I don't know what the hell they are talking about.
Do you have a link to any helpful information, then? Looking to learn.