Deployment Guide

5 Dell EMC XC Xpress Hyper-Converged Appliance Deployment Guide for ESXi | A02
1 Overview
The Dell EMC XC430 Xpress system is a hyper-converged appliance based on the Dell EMC XC430 paired
with Nutanix software. The Dell EMC XC430 Xpress hardware platform supports two Intel Xeon v4
processors, up to 12 DIMMs, and one SSD and three HDDs. The XC Xpress solution includes the Dell EMC
XC appliance and software from Nutanix (used as a virtual appliance), which simplifies virtualization by
converging compute, storage, and network into a single appliance that is deployed in a clustered
environment. For more information see, Dell.com/xcseriesmanuals. There is also a QRL that links you
immediately to documentation and instructional videos on the QRL site.
1.1 Documentation resources
For a list of the associated documentation, see the Dell EMC XC430 Xpress Hyper-Converged Appliance
Support Matrix found at Dell.com/xcseriesmanuals.
1.2 Introduction
The XC Xpress is a solution designed to bring the power of the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform to small and
medium businesses (SMBs). The Dell EMC XC Xpress is designed to address the IT needs of smaller
organizations through ease of deployment and management.
The Xpress features are limited to the features listed here:
XC Xpress feature list
Available premium features
Feature limitations
Multi-hypervisor support
Max cluster size = 4 appliances
Virtualization management
2 clusters max (Primary/on site DR Cluster)
Single site disaster recovery (DR)
No heterogeneous clusters
Cloud connect
No multi-site DR
Metro availability
No availability domains
Prism starter and central
No resilience factor of 3 (RF3)
MapReduce compression and dedup
No Prism Pro
Supports 1 Gbe and 10 GbE networks
No erasure coding
No encryption
No all-flash drives (no all SSD configuration)