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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)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with VxRail HCI System
4
Section 2: Administration of VxRail
10
Section 3: Advanced Solutions for VxRail

Understanding migration methodologies for VxRail

Data migration involves the transfer of data and host connectivity from one platform to another. When considering which migration methodology to use, there are many requirements and dependencies to be considered. Actually, there are a lot of migration methodologies for VxRail appliances, such as using vSphere Replication, VMware Storage vMotion, or Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, or backing up and restoring the data. In this chapter, we will consider how to migrate a virtual machine from a vSphere cluster into a VxRail cluster and will discuss the migration methodologies for VxRail appliances in two different scenarios. In the first scenario, we will migrate a virtual machine from a vSphere cluster into a VxRail cluster, and both clusters will be managed by different vCenter Server instances. We will use vSphere Replication to migrate the virtual machine into the VxRail cluster. In the second scenario, we will migrate a virtual...