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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

VxRail cluster expansion

In this chapter, we will learn the procedures for VxRail cluster expansion. According to Figure 7.1, we will add a new VxRail E560 node to the cluster to expand it. Finally, this VxRail cluster will become a four-node cluster. The cluster expansion operation is executed with vCenter Server, and we can start the wizard with the VxRail plugin that will guide us through the steps to add the node to the cluster. Now, let's start the VxRail cluster expansion based on the aforementioned environment configuration.

Preparation

For the preparation phase, follow these steps:

  1. First, we open the web browser, go to the management IP address of the vCenter Server instance that is integrated with the VxRail Manager plugin, and then launch vSphere Client (HTML5):

    Figure 7.2 – Launching vSphere Client (HTML5)

    Important note

    VMware vSphere Web Client (Flex) has been deprecated and is no longer available in vSphere 7.0.

  2. We use the VxRail administrator...
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