One of my readers was considering Dell/EMC hyperconverged solutions and sent me this question:

Just wondering if you have a chance to check out VxRail.

I read the data sheet and spec sheet, but have never seen anyone using it (any real-life experience highly welcome – please write a comment).

He continued with “Any chance on doing a webinar on the topic?”

Not really. VxRail is just a hardware/SKU packaging exercise. From the software perspective it's mostly a vSphere HA cluster using VSAN for distributed storage, probably having additional easy-to-use provisioning/managing software, similar to what VMware was doing with EVO:Rail.

I covered the networking aspects of vSphere HA clusters in vSphere 6 Networking Deep Dive webinar, distributed storage in Designing Private Cloud Infrastructure webinar, and mentioned some long-distance aspects in Designing Active-Active and Disaster Recovery Data Centers webinar, so I don't think there's much more to say about it.

Eventually I will do an update of the storage section of DC 3.0 webinar (it's been planned for a long while).

Note: you get all of the above-mentioned webinars with the ipSpace.net subscription, and professional or team subscriptions include an online consulting session.