The first of five planned EMC Federation solutions, the new Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution provides a virtualised data center that is fully automated by software and delivered as a service.
The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution was jointly developed in the EMC Federation Lab in Palo Alto to automate hundreds of orchestration workflows and accelerate ease of deployment.
With a Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution, mission-critical applications run on infrastructure that delivers greater visibility, manageability, cost control and agility.
The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution includes a reference architecture, solution guides and solution-specific workflows engineered and validated in the Federation Lab.
It is built on top of these products from the Federation:
* Management and orchestration: VMware vCloud Automation Center, VMware vCenter Operations Management, VMware IT Business Management, EMC Storage Resource Manager.
* Hypervisor: VMware vSphere
* Networking: VMware NSX
* Storage: Designed for EMC ViPR, EMC Storage Resource Manager and EMC Storage
* Data Protection: EMC Avamar, Data Domain, RecoverPoint, VPLEX
* Hybrid Cloud Deployment: VMware vCloud Air connectivity and workload migration
* Choice of Hardware: Built on converged infrastructure and can be deployed on a variety of hardware including VCE Vblock Systems and VSPEX
* PaaS: Pivotal CF
* Documented Reference Architectures
To enable mission critical infrastructure and applications to meet performance and availability expectations, the Federation joint support teams have established a collaborative support model for service and support.
