Dell EMC Bolsters Converged Infrastructure With VMware Integration

Dell EMC officials last fall unveiled enhancements to the company’s converged and hyperconverged infrastructure offerings with deeper integration of VMware technologies. That included Dell EMC’s VxBlock Central software for the vendor’s VxBlock System 1000 converged solution that drives greater awareness, automation and analytics to make management simpler.VxBlock Central included integration with offerings within VMware’s vRealize lineup, including vRealize Orchestrator for automating tasks and vRealize Operations for detailed analytics, all of which officials said laid the foundation for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and hybrid cloud operations. Dell EMC this week announced enhancements to the VxBlock 1000 converged infrastructure, including updated VxBlock Central integration with the latest versions of vRealize Orchestrator (7.5) and Operations (7.0) and VMware’s vSphere 6.7 virtualization platform. vRealize Orchestrator and Operations are integrated with vRealize Automation for multivendor and multicloud support.