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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

Chapter 6: VxRail Upgrade

In Chapter 5, Managing VMware vSAN, we described the advantages of the vSAN storage policy. The advantage is that we can easily define the different failure tolerance methods to protect the virtual machine and change the RAID protection level of the virtual machine without any service interruption.

In this chapter, we will provide an overview of VxRail drive expansion and software upgrade procedures. We can easily upgrade the vSAN capacity in the VxRail cluster based on the disk group configuration rules. The life cycle management of VxRail can help us to minimize the service interruption in the maintenance window.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • VxRail disk group upgrade
  • VxRail software upgrade