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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

Chapter 3: VxRail Administration Overview

In Chapter 2, VxRail Installation, we discussed an overview of VxRail installation. You learned how to prepare the hardware and software requirements for a VxRail installation. You can see from the whole deployment that it is more flexible and automated than the deployment of traditional servers and storage. These features help us minimize the deployment and configuration time, which is why we choose VxRail appliances for new system deployment.

In this chapter, we will describe an overview of VxRail administration. We will learn about the management panel that is used in VxRail appliances. Since the VxRail platform runs on VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN), we will explain the vSAN architecture and its concepts. You will see a review of the core components of a VxRail appliance by the end of this chapter, such as the VxRail Manager plugin for vCenter, vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), vSAN configuration, and so on. Now, we will begin to discuss...

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