Today’s modern data centers are running a variety of virtualized mixed workloads including private and hybrid clouds, and a set of common themes are emerging. For example, I/O blender effects are creating hugely random workloads from thousands of virtual machines. Modern data centers require storage that is able to consistently meet heavy performance demands, provide un-paralleled support to manage the entire virtual workload lifecycle, and that can deliver demanding SLAs.

By marrying new solid state technologies with a truly unique scale-out in-memory metadata architecture, XtremIO X2 is the storage platform designed to support all modern virtual data center objectives.

Virtualization can increase infrastructure and management efficiency and reduce costs. But if the added complexity reduces performance, that tradeoff may not be worth it.

This ESG Lab Review documents testing of the Dell EMC XtremIO X2 array with a focus on high performance and advanced features for today’s modern, virtualized environments. Learn why ESG believes that X2 provides an excellent foundation for IT transformation.

VMware IT relies on its own virtualization platform, cloud products and services, as well as other software solutions to gain a competitive edge and better serve its customers.

When VMware decided to implement SAP HANA as its primary business intelligence platform, its IT team chose Dell EMC XtremIO X2 All-Flash arrays.