Benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

The previous chapter provided an overview of the VxRail Appliance 7.x system. You learned about the architecture, features, management, and documentation resources for VxRail, such as automated deployment, one-click upgrade, and storage policy-based management. You learned how to help and offload the operation and configuration of VxRail in comparison with the traditional server and storage architecture. The VxRail 7.x platform runs on the latest generation of Dell PowerEdge hardware, the 15th generation. Compared to the previous generation of Dell PowerEdge hardware, the performance and configuration are improved in the latest version.

VxRail Appliance is a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) that is a self-contained infrastructure platform, and you can select different hardware components (such as CPU processors, memory, network connectivity, a network daughter card, GPUs, NVMe, and all-flash disk devices) to build your environment based...