Customers can reduce operating costs with efficiency and ease: Time-To-Value (TTV) to first VM in minutes, fast VM deployment, configuration and management, easy non-disruptive patch and upgrades, global settings, VM lifecycle management, and simplified scale-out.
- Power-on to VM creation in minutes : Select the guest OS, VM size, VLAN and security options. EVO:RAIL hyper-convergence simplifies virtual machine sizing by offering single-click small, medium and large configurations.
- Simplified deployment, configuration and management : EVO:RAIL Configuration walks users through initial parameters, validates settings and then configures ESXi hosts, vCenter Server and vRealize Log Insight automatically. Global parameters such as passwords, NTP servers, logging and time zone are all set centrally and applied to all the ESXi hosts in the EVO:RAIL cluster.
- Linear and Automated scale-out : Increase compute, networking and storage resources by powering up a new appliance to join an existing EVO:RAIL cluster. EVO:RAIL automatically distributes the configuration to seamlessly add new appliances with zero additional configuration.
- Fast, Easy VDI : EVO:RAIL with Horizon makes it easy and affordable to change physical desktops into secure virtual workspaces. EVO:RAIL with Horizon lets you start small with as few as 25 users. You can deploy, manage and linearly scale your virtual workspaces as demand grows. EVO:RAIL with Horizon simplifies and streamlines the management of your desktop infrastructure.
2U TwinPro2™ EVO:RAIL Solutions.
Will Jaya's EVO: RAIL appliance is a complete Hyper-converged Infrastructure Appliance. It combines compute, networking and storage resources into a single 2U, 4-node form factor to create a simple, easy-to-deploy building block for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
- • Starts with four independent hosts and a distributed datastore, implemented on the 2U TwinPro2 SuperServer, scalable to 16 nodes.
- • Fault tolerance, reliability and automatic scale-out are key features implemented though VMware software technologies and Supermicro hardware designs.
- • EVO: RAIL Deployment, Configuration, and Management enables power-on to VM creation in minutes, easy VM deployment and nondisruptive upgrade.
- • Embraces latest compute, storage and networking technologies, with leading VMware certified components for peace-of-mind implementation.
- • Ordered via a single SKU and backed by Supermicro’s Global Service as a single point of contact for hardware and software support.
Configuration | Server Workloads | VDI Workloads |
Server Model | SYS-2028TP-VRL001 | SYS-2028TP-VRL002 |
Profile Specifications | up to 100 Virtual Machines | up to 250 Virtual Machines |
Number of Nodes | 4 Dual Intel® Xeon® processors nodes 2028TP: E5-2600v3 family | |
Raw Capacity | 14.4TB with 10K RPM HDD’s | |
Networking | VRL001: 10GbE RJ45 VRL002: 10GbE SFP+ |
VRL001: 10GbE RJ45 VRL002: 10GbE SFP+ |
Software | EVO: RAIL Deployment, Configuration, and Management vSphere 5.5 Enterprise Plus, Virtual SAN 5.5, vCenter Server, vCenter Log Insight | |
Form Factor | 2U w/ Redundant Hot-Swap Power Supplies | 2U w/ Redundant Hot-Swap Power Supplies |
The EVO:RAIL hyper-converged infrastructure appliance enables power-on to VM creation in minutes, fast VM deployment, configuration and management, easy non-disruptive patch and upgrades and simplified scale-out.
- • Power-on to VM creation in minutes : Select the guest OS, VM size, VLAN and security options. EVO:RAIL hyper-convergence simplifies virtual machine sizing by offering single-click small, medium and large configurations.
- • Simplified deployment, configuration and management : EVO:RAIL Configuration walks users through initial parameters, validates settings and then configures ESXi hosts, vCenter Server and vRealize Log Insight automatically. Global parameters such as passwords, NTP servers, logging and time zone are all set centrally and applied to all the ESXi hosts in the EVO:RAIL cluster.
- • Linear and Automated scale-out : Increase compute, networking and storage resources by powering up a new appliance to join an existing EVO:RAIL cluster. EVO:RAIL automatically distributes the configuration to seamlessly add new appliances with zero additional configuraion.
- • Fast, Easy VDI: EVO : RAIL with Horizon makes it easy and affordable to change physical desktops into secure virtual workspaces. EVO:RAIL with Horizon lets you start small with as few as 25 users. You can deploy, manage and linearly scale your virtual workspaces as demand grows. EVO:RAIL with Horizon simplifies and streamlines the management of your desktop infrastructure. Best of all, your end users get predictable performance across devices and locations.
Meet accelerating business demands by simplifying infrastructure design with predictable sizing and scaling, streamlining purchase and deployment with an all-in-one appliance and reducing CapEx and OpEx.
- • Easy to size and scale: Each appliance supports approximately 100 general purpose virtual machines or up to 250 Horizon View virtual desktops, allowing IT to leverage a pay-as-you-grow model. Scale out up to eight appliances, for a total of 32 ESXi hosts and one Virtual SAN datastore, backed by a single vCenter Server and EVO:RAIL instance.
- • True appliance: EVO:RAIL is ready to be configured with networking details for rapid deployment, eliminating the need to piece a solution together, then validate and certify hardware configurations, loading software, and running scripts. A consistent experience that eliminates the variation and configuration drift associated with ordering traditional systems.
- • Lower CapEx: Reduce capital expenditures through a server platform with server side storage that is optimized for the EVO:RAIL software stack, so you can pay as you grow. EVO:RAIL with Horizon hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA) has lower per-user cost than traditional physical desktops.
- • Lower OpEx: Reduce IT operating costs with faster deployments, automatic scaling, and one click non-disruptive patch and upgrades of all VMware software.
EVO:RAIL hyper-convergence integrates both software and hardware resiliency to ensure zero application downtime during planned maintenance or during disk, network or host failures.
- • High availability: EVO:RAIL leverages VMware vSphere HA, vMotion, DRS and Virtual SAN to ensure high availability at both the compute and storage layers.
- • No planned or unplanned downtime: Four independent ESXi hosts allow applications to non-disruptively move to another host during planned maintenance or failure. Only the dual, redundant power supplies are shared in the appliance. Each host has dual 10 GbE network connections for redundant network connectivity, providing high performance and resiliency.
- • Non-disruptive patches and updates: Hosts are automatically cycled into maintenance mode during patching or upgrading
EVO:RAIL delivers the first hyper converged infrastructure appliance 100% powered by VMware software.
- •Proven VMware SW stack fully loaded in EVO:RAIL:
- EVO:RAIL Deployment, Configuration and Management Engine
- vSphere Enterprise Plus
- vCenter Server
- VMware Virtual SAN
- vRealize Log Insight
- • Unified user experience: EVO:RAIL is optimized for the new VMware user as well as for experienced administrators. Minimal IT experience is required to deploy, configure and manage EVO:RAIL, allowing it to be used where there is limited or no IT staff on-site. Administrators can apply existing VMware knowledge, best practices and processes. EVO:RAIL leverages the same database as vCenter Server, so any changes in EVO:RAIL Configuration and Management are also reflected in vCenter Server and vice-versa.