Performance Analytics for Vblock / VxRail

Delivering Holistic Visibility & Business Service Management to Converged & Hyper-Converged Platforms

VCE delivers converged and hyper-converged infrastructures for next-generation enterprise computing,

allowing IT to focus on the applications and services that are critical to their businesses. By providing pre-

configured converged solutions, VCE can substantially reduce engineering, integration and installation times

providing a short time to value. Based on reference architectures, these converged platforms combine

storage, networking, computing and other software in a single appliance. Mid-sized enterprise with ROBO

sites and service providers require more options in terms of scale and simplicity to meet their unique needs.

They require hyper-converged solutions that are software-defined, creating the flexibility to combine storage

and compute utilities into right-sized pools of resources. Whether converged or hyper-converged, Centerity’s

business intelligence layer spans all technology layers, on both single and multi-node deployments, providing

organizations end-to-end performance analytics that reduce Operational Complexity, MTTR and OPEX.

Centerity’s industry-leading Performance Analytics and Service Assurance Solution for VCE’s converged and

hyper-converged systems can cover the entire stack from the infrastructure layer to the application layer

regardless of size or location. By covering every technology layer, from infrastructure to the critical

applications and databases running on it, Centerity can deliver service-centric business intelligence that

enables VCE users to focus on the health of their business, not their infrastructure. Together, VCE and

Centerity deliver holistic visibility into Vblock / VxRail environments, providing performance and availability

monitoring to mission critical applications and Big Data solutions (SAP HANA, Hadoop, Oracle, NoSQL, etc.) that

customers rely on to keep their businesses running 24x7.

Delivering a Single Version of the Truth

Ease of Deployment: With its end-to-end coverage and unique ability to perform correlated impact analysis

across technology domains, Centerity accelerates VCE’s already speedy deployments by ensuring that applications

operate in perfect concert with the underlying infrastructure.

Assured Service Availability: By delivering visibility and Business Service Management (BSM) to the application

layer, Centerity tracks the real-time health and availability of critical business processes and performs predictive,

trend and root-cause analysis at the service level — No more chasing alerts and manually correlating events

between technology layers!

Rapid Scalability: Centerity’s multi-tenanted and federated design compliments both Vblock and VxRail

architectures to allow rapid, predictable scalability for technology environments as dynamic as your business.

Business Intelligence Layer: With all analytics normalized across all technology layers from all locations

viewable from a single console, Centerity can dramatically reduce Operational Complexity, MTTR and OPEX,

delivering superior TCO and ROI on converged and hyper-converged investments.

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Technical Details

Vblock and VxRail solutions have broad configuration diversity including hybrid and all-flash versions. VxRail

has added significantly to its extensibility by leveraging VMware’s hyper-converged software (HCS) stack. HCS

comprises VMware’s Virtual San (VSAN), vCenter, and vSphere software. A single VxRail hyper-converged

appliance can simultaneously run different workloads, including enterprise databases and applications, VDI,

and Big Data workloads. Centerity’s service pack for Vblock/VxRail provides end-to-end performance analytics

for all HCS components. Centerity’s certified integrations with Vblock, Vision V3.x and integration with

VxRail/HCS can capture any performance metric and allows for quick deployments and custom configurations

via Centerity best practice templates. Centerity’s Business Service Management (BSM) advanced features,

together with the Vblock, VxRail and Vision service packs, provide proactive monitoring and a complete

business intelligence layer with operational and orchestration analytics to the entire VCE suite of products.

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ABOUT CENTERITY Centerity Systems is the industry-leading vendor of a Next-Gen, Unified Performance Analytics & Service Assurance Platform for complex, hybrid environments (physical, virtual, application, and cloud). Centerity delivers business value and real-time business analytics regarding the status, performance and availability of all IT assets, whether in the cloud or on-prem. Centerity’s unique, unified platform, named a Gartner Cool Vendor, can serve the needs of both IT executives and administrators, providing a complete business intelligence layer across all IT assets via cross-technical and functional domain impact, trend, and root-cause analysis through its Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities. Learn more at www.centerity.com.

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