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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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Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617700
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Victor Wu has over 15 years of system infrastructure experience. Currently, he works as a senior solutions architect at BoardWare Information System Limited in Macau.nHe is the only qualified person in Macau with a certificate in VMware VCIX-DCV, and was awarded the vExpert certification from 2014 to 2022, Cisco Champion from 2017 to 2022, Veeam Vanguard from 2019 to 2022, and Nutanix Technology Champion in 2021.nHis professional qualifications include VCIX-DCV 2022, VMware Certified Master Specialist – HCI 2022, Implementation Engineer – VxRail Appliance, Systems Administrator – VxRail Appliance, Nutanix Certified Professional 5, NetApp HCI Implementation Engineer, and Knowledge Sharing Author from 2018 to 2021.nHe is the author of Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions, published by Packt Publishing in June 2021.
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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

An overview of VMware vSAN on VxRail

VMware vSAN is a Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solution that is used in collaboration with the VMware vSphere hypervisor. The VMware vSAN solution can provide shared storage for VMs. In Figure 4.1, vSAN is a vSphere cluster feature that virtualizes the local physical storage in the pool of the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Solid-State Drive (SSD) on the ESXi hosts in a cluster, building them into a unified data store. Each ESXi host requires a minimum disk group that includes a SSD and HDD. vSAN can provide enterprise storage that is powerful, flexible, and user-friendly. This solution can be deployed in different environments – for example, the core, the edge, and the cloud. When you build the VxRail cluster on day one, the vSAN datastore is created automatically.

The vSAN datastore includes the following characteristics:

  • All nodes in the VxRail cluster must be connected to a vSAN Layer 2 or Layer 3 network. It supports a maximum...
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Victor Wu has over 10 years of IT experience. Currently, he works as a Solution Architect at BoardWare Information System Limited in Macau. It is one of the most reputable and leading companies in Macau that provides products and services along with systems integration. He is responsible for storage implementation, architecture, upgrades, and migration (such as EMC Clariion/VNX, HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200/7400, HP P-Series and IBM DS-Series, and so on). He is also responsible for virtualization solutions (such as VMware vSphere/View, Microsoft Hyper-V, Novell PlateSpin, Double-Take, and Citrix XenServer/App/Desktop). He has lots of experience with virtualization solutions. This includes VMware vSphere/View, Microsoft Hyper-V, Novell PlateSpin, Double-Take, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, and Cisco UCS deployment. He is interested in some deployments of virtualization solutions and troubleshooting, such as VMware version upgrades, storage data migration, and so on. He is the only qualified person in Macau with a certificate in VMware VCAP5-DCD and VCAP5-DCA, and he was awarded vExpert in 2014/2015/2016. His professional qualifications include EMCIE, EMCPE, EMCTAe, vExpert 2014/2015/2016, VCP6-DCV, VCP6-CMA, VCP6-NV, VCP6-DTM, VCAP5-DCD, VCAP4/5-DCA, VCP5-DT, VCP-Cloud, VCP-NT, VCP3/4/5, CDCUCSS, CDCUCDS, CCA, MCITP, and MCP. He was the author of Mastering VMware vSphere Storage, published by Packt Publishing in July 2015. You can find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-wu-95a07022.
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