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Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions

You're reading from   Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions A complete guide to VxRail Appliance administration and configuration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070485
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Victor Wu Victor Wu
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with VxRail HCI System
2. Chapter 1: Overview of VxRail HCI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: VxRail Installation 4. Section 2: Administration of VxRail
5. Chapter 3: VxRail Administration Overview 6. Chapter 4: VxRail Management Overview 7. Chapter 5: Managing VMware vSAN 8. Chapter 6: VxRail Upgrade 9. Chapter 7: VxRail Scale-Out Operations 10. Section 3: Advanced Solutions for VxRail
11. Chapter 8: Active-Passive Solution for VxRail 12. Chapter 9: Active-Active Solution for VxRail 13. Chapter 10: Migrating Virtual Machines into VxRail 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we need to prepare a laptop for VxRail initialization. For VxRail initialization, we will use a four-port configuration on the Network Daughter Card (NDC) – an onboard network adapter. Make sure Microsoft Windows 7 or above is running on this laptop, and that the web browser is installed on your laptop. The latest versions of Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or above are all supported.

Environment

In this chapter, we will discuss VxRail installation based on the architecture in Figure 2.1. There are three VxRail nodes (P570 model), two 10 Gb network switches, and one 1 Gb network switch. The following table is the summary of each hardware component. The two pairs of 10 Gb switches are used to network VxRail Appliance, and the 1 Gb switch is used for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) network:

According to the preceding table, we know the network configuration...

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