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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

Deploying the active-active solution for VxRail

In this section, we will discuss the deployment of an active-active solution for VxRail. This includes the deployment of a vSAN stretched cluster witness and the configuration of a VxRail vSAN stretched cluster. Let's assume that we are deploying a VxRail cluster (with eight E560 nodes) across the preferred site and the secondary site, and that a vSphere cluster is running at the witness site.

Deploying a vSAN stretched cluster witness

We will deploy a vSAN witness appliance in a vSphere cluster at the witness site. The following is the procedure for deploying the vSAN witness appliance:

  1. Go to the VMware website (https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/6_7#drivers_tools) and select the corresponding version on the Select Version menu. For VxRail version 4.7.x, select 6.7. We can download the latest version of the VMware Virtual SAN Witness Appliance 6.7U3j...
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