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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

VMware vSAN

In this section, we will discuss the vSAN architecture, components, and fault tolerance concepts. VxRail appliances are powered by VMware vSAN. VMware vSAN is the software-defined storage across the vSphere cluster.

Overview

A vSAN cluster supports up to 64 nodes; four nodes are the recommended configuration. Each vSAN node must contain at least one disk group, which includes one Flash device as the cache tier and one magnetic drive as the capacity tier. The network requirement of each vSAN node is a 10 Gb or 25 Gb network interface. They can support 1 GbE as well on single-processor models. Figure 3.7 shows a sample configuration of the vSAN architecture. You can see that there are four physical servers, which are validated and certified hardware from VMware for VMware vSAN deployment. Each vSAN node (VxRail appliance) includes one Flash device and three magnetic drives and could be All-Flash as well. In this vSAN cluster, there are four ESXi hosts and it has one...

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