VMworld 2015 Europe: SDDC5273 - EVO SDDC: Deploying a Software-Defined Data Center Made Easy

What's all the hype about with hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? In this session, we'll discuss the different alternatives to building a software-defined data center (SDDC), and how the newest option, HCI, is differentiated in terms of simplicity, faster time to productivity, flexible scalability and lower TCO competitive with public/private cloud offerings. Furthermore, we'll do a deep dive into features and capabilities of the 2 members of VMware's EVO family--EVO:RAIL and EVO:RACK--and explain how they are based on the same foundational pieces, but also very different in terms of architecture, capabilities, use cases and target customer. In particular, we will also discuss how an existing investment in EVO:RAIL can be preserved by migrating to a new EVO:RACK instance.