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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

VxRail cluster configuration

In this section, we will discuss an overview of VxRail system virtual machines, vDS and port groups, VxRail disk groups, and vSAN storage policies.

VxRail system virtual machines

When you log in to a VxRail cluster with vSphere Web Client for the first time, you can see some VxRail system virtual machines. In the VxRail initialization, we can choose the option for deploying VMware vCenter Server. You can check out Chapter 2, VxRail Installation, for more details. When the VxRail deployment is completed, you can see that some VxRail system virtual machines are ready in the VxRail cluster. In Figure 3.16, if you choose VxRail deployments with the embedded vCenter Server, you can see four virtual machines, consisting of the following:

  • VMware vCenter Server Appliance
  • VMware vCenter Server Platform Services Controller
  • VMware vRealize Log Insight
  • VxRail Manager

If you choose VxRail deployments with the external vCenter Server...

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