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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

Summary

This chapter has given you an understanding of the advantages of vSAN storage policies. With them, we can easily define different FTT methods to protect VMs and change the RAID protection level of a VM without any service interruption. Finally, you now understand the difference between vSAN storage provisioning and traditional storage provisioning.

In the next chapter, we will learn about Life Cycle Management (LCM) on a VxRail cluster, and we will look at the advantages of LCM compared with a traditional server and storage.