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Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices

You're reading from   Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices A complete guide to VxRail appliance design and best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617700
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started with the VxRail Appliance 7.x System
2. Chapter 1: Overview of VxRail Appliance 7.x System FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure 4. Part 2: Design of the VxRail Appliance 7.x System
5. Chapter 3: Design of vCenter Server 6. Chapter 4: Design of vSAN Storage Policies 7. Chapter 5: Design of Cluster Expansion 8. Chapter 6: Design of vSAN 2-Node Cluster on VxRail 9. Part 3: Design of Data Protection for the VxRail System
10. Chapter 7: Design of Stretched Cluster on VxRail 11. Chapter 8: Design of VxRail with SRM 12. Chapter 9: Design of RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines on VxRail 13. Chapter 10: Design of VxRail with Veeam Backup 14. Assessments 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Design of vCenter Server

In the previous chapter, you learned about the new features and hardware in the 15th-generation VxRail, including VxRail cluster types, vSAN dynamic nodes, and VxRail satellite nodes. When you plan to deploy the VxRail system in your environment, you can choose different kinds of VxRail deployments. You learned the advantages and disadvantages of each kind of VxRail node and what use case is suitable for each VxRail node.

VMware vCenter Server is an essential component of the VxRail system. VxRail Manager is integrated into VMware vCenter Server with the VxRail Manager plugin for vCenter. In the 14th-generation VxRail, you can choose the internal VMware vCenter Server (embedded vCenter Server) and external VMware vCenter Server (customer-supplied vCenter Server) for VxRail deployment in the Dell EMC VxRail deployment wizard. VxRail deployment depends on the design of the VxRail cluster configured with VMware vCenter Server, the Domain Name Server (DNS),...

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