UPDATED Dec 8th, 2:45pm EST – clarification on VCE support model.

Well – it’s been a busy month since the VMware, Cisco, EMC Virtual Compute Environment coalition launch.   Customer reaction has been universally positive in my view, with the only critique being pressure for more details.  

If you’re a VMware, Cisco, or EMC employee, or a VCE partner – the official Required/Recommended Bill of Materials (BoM) for the Type 1 (mid-range unified design) and Type 2 (enterprise NAS + block scale-out design) have been published.  You can get the BoM by using the VCE portal (www.vceportal.com) and registering the opportunity, or by directly reaching out to the VCE Solutions Support Team or SST (which part of my team is part of) – though if you use the VCE portal, the SST gets engaged automatically.

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