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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

VMware vSAN service configuration

In this section, we will discuss vSAN service configuration in a VxRail cluster, including the following:

  • vSAN Deduplication and Compression
  • vSAN Encryption
  • vSAN Performance Service
  • The vSAN iSCSI target service
  • Advanced options

These features can be enabled during deployment, if we specify in the PEQ, or can be enabled manually after deployment; we need to enable these features manually if we want to use them. If we go to the Configure tab of the VxRail cluster and choose Services under the vSAN menu, we can enable these features:

Figure 5.1 – vSAN service configuration

Now we will discuss each vSAN feature one by one.

vSAN Deduplication and Compression

vSAN Deduplication and Compression is only supported on VxRail all-flash clusters; VxRail hybrid clusters are not supported. It also requires a VMware vSAN license edition of Advanced or above. When vSAN deduplication is enabled...

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