Preface

Traditional IT teams are faced with a massive amount of complexity when building, configuring, maintaining, and scaling applications. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) can simplify infrastructure deployment and management. VxRail appliances are developed by Dell EMC and VMware and are the only fully preconfigured and tested HCI appliances powered by VMware vSAN technology. This book contains three sections, getting started with the VxRail appliance 7.x system, the design of the VxRail appliance 7.x system, and the design of the data protection for the VxRail system. You will be given an overview of VxRail’s architecture and the benefits of the VxRail 7.x system, and design every core component of a VxRail system, the vSAN storage policies, and its cluster expansion. In the last section, you will learn about the design of the advanced solutions for VxRail, including a stretched cluster on VxRail, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Dell EMC RecoverPoint for VMs, and Veeam Backup & Replication.

By the end of this book, you will have got to grips with Dell’s hyper-converged VxRail offering, taking your virtualization proficiency to the next level.