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Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices

By : Victor Wu
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Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices

By: Victor Wu

Overview of this book

Virtualized systems are well established now, and their disparate components can be found bundled together in hyper-converged infrastructures, such as VxRail from Dell EMC. Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices will take you, as a system architect or administrator, through the process of designing and protecting VxRail systems. While this book assumes a certain level of knowledge of VMware, vSphere 7.x, and vCenter Server, you’ll get a thorough overview of VxRail's components, features, and architecture, as well as a breakdown of the benefits of this hyper-converged system. This guide will give you an in-depth understanding of VxRail, as well as plenty of practical examples and self-assessment questions along the way to help you plan and design every core component of a VxRail system – from vSAN storage policies to cluster expansion. It's no good having a great system if you lose everything when it breaks, so you'll spend some time examining advanced recovery options, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager and Veeam Backup and Replication. By the end of this book, you will have got to grips with Dell’s hyper-converged VxRail offering, taking your virtualization proficiency to the next level.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with the VxRail Appliance 7.x System
4
Part 2: Design of the VxRail Appliance 7.x System
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Part 3: Design of Data Protection for the VxRail System

Dell VxRail documentation and resources

In this last section, we will discuss where you can access the VxRail documentation and resources, which include the Dell Technologies support website, Dell Technologies SolVe Online, and VMware documentation.

As you can see in Figure 1.19, you can access the VxRail software, knowledge base, and documentation on the Dell Technologies support website if you are a Dell partner or employee. The access link is at https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/vxrail-appliance-series/overview:

Figure 1.19 – Dell Technologies support site

Figure 1.19 – Dell Technologies support site

Important Note

Please note that some VxRail software and documentation can only be accessed by Dell Technologies employees.

Dell Technologies SolVe Online is a web-based tool (Figure 1.20) used by Dell Technologies employees, partners, and customers. This tool is used to generate detailed installation and configuration procedures for all Dell hardware and software products, for example, VxRail Appliance and RP4VM.

Figure 1.20 – Dell Technologies SolVe Online

Figure 1.20 – Dell Technologies SolVe Online

You can access SolVe Online with this link: https://solve.dell.com/solve/home.

Important Note

Please note that some installation procedures are only accessed by Dell Technologies employees and certified partners. Dell Technologies SolVe also has an interactive edition, SolVe Desktop.

Since VxRail Appliance is fully integrated with VMware products, the VMware documentation is also valid for the VxRail environment. In Figure 1.21, you can see the documentation of VMware vSphere and vSAN at https://docs.vmware.com/:

Figure 1.21 – VMware documentation website

Figure 1.21 – VMware documentation website

If you are looking for any technical or knowledge support about VxRail Appliance, you can find the relevant information by using the preceding documentation and resources.