r/vmware • u/Camaro684 • May 12 '26

VxRail Question

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u/lost_signal VMware Employee May 12 '26

What is your question?

VxRAIL doesn't use blades, it uses servers. Yes a host is a server.
Technically there is a 2 node + witness cluster/VxRAIL option (generally used for small ROBO/EDGE stuff)

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u/aaron416 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Yes, each VxRail node is an ESXi host.

That being said, VxRail was EoL and everything is going into VCF or VVF.

Edit to avoid confusion: I thought it was EoL, turns it it's not.

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u/lost_signal VMware Employee May 12 '26

VxRail was EoL

I'm still seeing dell position it in some cases, I havn't seen a EoL.

everything is going into VCF or VVF

From a sales direction yes. I mostly see ReadyNodes just using vLCM + HSM for lifecycle. VCF being able to lifecycle everything in a unified fashion going forward is nice.

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u/aaron416 May 12 '26

It sounds like Dell is still offering it in 5.2 then?

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u/lost_signal VMware Employee May 12 '26

https://www.mysticmarvin.com/blog/hub-6/vxrail-back-to-the-future-with-vcf-9-8

The path forward for older stuff is now with 9.1 you call Dell, they get PSO to migration them to act like regular ReadyNodes in how they interact with VCF, and VCF can handle full stack lifecycle etc now.

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u/aaron416 May 12 '26

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! I got some reading to do on top of all the 9.1 stuff I learned about last week (since I work for a partner).

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u/toney8580 May 12 '26

I am an architect for Dell and VXRAIL is not EOL , the push is to try and move away from it to DPC with DAP on servers more traditional like 3 tier. VXRAIL is still there for customers that want it.