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Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions

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Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions

Overview of this book

Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) can help you simplify the provisioning and daily operations of computing and storage. With this book, you'll understand how HCI can offload the day 0 deployment and day-to-day operations of a system administrator. You'll explore the VxRail Appliance, which is an HCI solution that provides lifecycle management, automation, and operational simplicity. Starting with an overview of the VxRail Appliance system architecture and components, you'll understand the benefits of the VxRail system and compare it with the environment of traditional servers and storage. As you advance, the book covers topics such as disaster recovery and active-active and active-passive solutions for VxRail. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to manage the deployment, administration, planning, and design of a VxRail system.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with VxRail HCI System
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Section 2: Administration of VxRail
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Section 3: Advanced Solutions for VxRail

Overview of the active-active-passive solution for VxRail

If we deployed the vSAN stretched cluster on VxRail between the primary and secondary sites, how could the disaster recovery solution for the vSAN stretched cluster be extended? VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) also supports extending the site-level protection to other sites. In Figure 9.37, we can see that there are four separate sites: they are Preferred Site, Secondary Site, Witness Site, and Remote Site. The vSAN stretched cluster builds on VxRail across the preferred and secondary sites, and the vSAN witness host is running at the witness site. The VxRail cluster is running at the remote site. The SRM is enabled with vSphere Replication between the vSAN stretched cluster and the VxRail cluster. If the vSAN stretched cluster has a fault, we could execute the SRM recovery plan to recover all the protected VMs on the vSAN stretched cluster in the VxRail cluster at the remote site:

Figure 9.37 –...