Dell secures Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Certification for SAP HANA Production Environments

Dell Technologies announced that Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure appliances, powered by VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN software, are certified by SAP for SAP HANA production environments.

The certifications, for both VxRail and VMware software, reflect VMware and Dell EMC’s continued leadership in the rapidly growing HCI industry.

According to the latest research from IDC1, Dell Inc. is once again No. 1 in the hyper-converged systems segment with 28.8 percent share, for the second quarter of 2018, based on year-to-year growth of 95.2 percent. Led by the success of Dell EMC VxRail, Dell’s growth outpaces the industry, which grew 78.1 percent to $1.5 billion in system sales for the quarter. 

For the same period, VMware was tied for No. 1 in hyper-converged systems based on owner of HCI software with 34.1 percent revenue share, demonstrating the largest year-to-year growth of any named vendor at 96.7 percent.

Dell EMC VxRail is the industry’s only jointly engineered, turnkey, fully integrated HCI appliance with VMware, powered by VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN and pre-tested and pre-configured with the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. 

These appliances are the easiest and fastest way to simplify a VMware environment for HCI with seamless integration with existing VMware tools. VxRail offers simplicity of lifecycle management and scalability with a cost-effective HCI solution that delivers multiple compute, memory, storage, network and graphics options to match any use case and cover a wide variety of applications and workloads.

“Dell EMC VxRail makes IT transformation with HCI as simple as possible for customers to adopt and grow,” said Gil Shneorson, senior VP and GM, Dell EMC VxRail. “As customers increasingly use VxRail for core data center workloads, this certification makes VxRail, already architected for in-memory database applications, an excellent HCI solution for SAP HANA customers.”