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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.

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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Part 1: Getting Started with the VxRail Appliance 7.x System
Part 1: Getting Started with the VxRail Appliance 7.x System
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Chapter 1: Overview of VxRail Appliance 7.x System
Chapter 1: Overview of VxRail Appliance 7.x System
What is VxRail Appliance?
Dell VxRail architecture
Dell VxRail features
Dell VxRail management
Dell VxRail documentation and resources
Summary
Questions
3
Chapter 2: Benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Chapter 2: Benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
What’s new in VxRail 15th generation?
VxRail nodes with vSAN
VxRail dynamic nodes
VxRail satellite nodes
Summary
Questions
4
Part 2: Design of the VxRail Appliance 7.x System
Part 2: Design of the VxRail Appliance 7.x System
5
Chapter 3: Design of vCenter Server
Chapter 3: Design of vCenter Server
Internal vCenter Server with an external DNS
Internal vCenter Server with an internal DNS
External vCenter Server with an external DNS
External vCenter Server with customer-supplied VDS
Summary
Questions
6
Chapter 4: Design of vSAN Storage Policies
Chapter 4: Design of vSAN Storage Policies
An overview of VMware vSAN on VxRail
An overview of vSAN objects and components
VMware vSAN storage policies
VMware vSAN HCI Mesh
Summary
Questions
7
Chapter 5: Design of Cluster Expansion
Chapter 5: Design of Cluster Expansion
Overview of VxRail scale-out rules
Design of disk groups on VxRail E-Series
Design of disk groups on VxRail P-Series
Design of disk groups on VxRail V-Series
Design of disk groups on VxRail S-Series
Design of disk groups on VxRail D-Series
Design of disk groups on VxRail G-Series
Summary
Questions
8
Chapter 6: Design of vSAN 2-Node Cluster on VxRail
Chapter 6: Design of vSAN 2-Node Cluster on VxRail
Overview of VxRail vSAN two-node clusters
Designing a VxRail vSAN two-node cluster
A scenario using a VxRail vSAN two-node cluster
Failure scenarios of a VxRail vSAN two-node cluster
Summary
Questions
9
Part 3: Design of Data Protection for the VxRail System
Part 3: Design of Data Protection for the VxRail System
10
Chapter 7: Design of Stretched Cluster on VxRail
Chapter 7: Design of Stretched Cluster on VxRail
Overview of VxRail Stretched Cluster
Design of VxRail Stretched Cluster
A scenario using VxRail Stretched Cluster
Failure scenarios of VxRail Stretched Cluster
Summary
Questions
11
Chapter 8: Design of VxRail with SRM
Chapter 8: Design of VxRail with SRM
Overview of VMware SRM
Overview of VxRail with VMware SRM
The design of VxRail with VMware SRM
The benefits of VxRail with VMware SRM
Failover scenarios of VxRail with VMware SRM
Summary
Questions
12
Chapter 9: Design of RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines on VxRail
Chapter 9: Design of RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines on VxRail
Overview of RP4VM
Overview of RP4VM on VxRail
The benefits of RP4VM
The design of RP4VM on VxRail
Failover scenarios of RP4VM on VxRail
Summary
Questions
13
Chapter 10: Design of VxRail with Veeam Backup
Chapter 10: Design of VxRail with Veeam Backup
Overview of VBR
Overview of VxRail with VBR
Benefits of VxRail with VBR
Design of VxRail with VBR
Recovery scenarios of VxRail with VBR
Summary
Questions
14
Assessments
Assessments
Chapter 1 – Overview of VxRail Appliance 7.x System
Chapter 2 – Benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Chapter 3 – Design of vCenter Server
Chapter 4 – Design of vSAN Storage Policies
Chapter 5 – Design of Cluster Expansion
Chapter 6 – Design of VxRail vSAN 2-Node Cluster
Chapter 7 – Design of Stretched Cluster on VxRail
Chapter 8 – Design of VxRail with SRM
Chapter 9 – Design of RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines on VxRail
Chapter 10 – Design of VxRail with Veeam Backup
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Index
Index
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Questions

The following are a short list of review questions to help reinforce your learning and help you identify areas which require some improvement.

  1. Which license is not bundled with VxRail Appliance?
    1. VMware vCenter Server Appliance
    2. VMware vSAN
    3. Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines
    4. VMware vRealize Log Insight
    5. VMware Cloud Foundation
  2. Which VxRail Series does not exist?
    1. E Series
    2. P Series
    3. S Series
    4. K Series
    5. V Series
  3. If the customer is planning to deploy some virtual machines with high performance, as a system consultant, which VxRail series should you propose to the customer?
    1. VxRail P670F
    2. VxRail V670F
    3. VxRail E660
    4. VxRail S670
    5. VxRail G560F
  4. Which of these is an unsupported configuration of VxRail?
    1. VxRail V Series All-Flash
    2. VxRail E Series Hybrid
    3. VxRail V Series NVMe
    4. VxRail S Series Hybrid
    5. VxRail G Series Hybrid
  5. What are the software components that exist in the VxRail system?
    1. VMware Site Recovery Manager
    2. VMware Cloud Foundation
    3. VMware vRealize Operations
    4. VMware vSphere Replication
    5. VMware Tanzu
  6. Which vSAN license editions can be supported with RAID-5/6 Erasure Coding?
    1. vSAN Standard
    2. vSAN Advanced
    3. vSAN Enterprise
    4. vSAN Enterprise Plus
    5. vSAN ROBO
  7. Which vSphere license edition is used in a remote office environment?
    1. vSphere Standard
    2. vSphere Advanced
    3. vSphere Enterprise
    4. vSphere Enterprise Plus
    5. vSphere ROBO
  8. Which of these is not a feature of VxRail?
    1. Continuous data protection
    2. One-click upgrade
    3. Storage policy-based management
    4. Data-at-rest encryption
    5. Storage replication
  9. Which of these can be supported on NVMe configuration?
    1. VxRail V Series
    2. VxRail E Series
    3. VxRail P Series
    4. VxRail S Series
    5. VxRail G Series
    6. VxRail D Series
  10. Which VxRail service-level agreement includes Service Account Manager?
    1. Basic
    2. Enterprise
    3. Enterprise Plus
    4. ProSupport
    5. ProSupport Plus
    6. None of the above
  11. Which resources do you use to generate installation procedures for the VxRail system?
    1. Dell Technologies support website
    2. Dell Technologies SolVe Online
    3. My VMware support website
    4. VMware documentation website
    5. Dell Technologies SolVe Desktop
  12. Which VxRail system virtual machines do not exist on the VxRail 7.0. system?
    1. vRealize Log Insight
    2. VxRail Manager
    3. vCenter Server Appliance
    4. vCenter Server Platform Controller
    5. vRealize Operations Manager
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