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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 8: Active-Passive Solution for VxRail

In Chapter 7, VxRail Scale-Out Operations, we described how we add a new node to an existing VxRail cluster with the VxRail Manager plugin in vCenter Server. We learned how VxRail's scale-out feature supports organizations, starting small and growing only when needed.

In this chapter, you will learn what the disaster recovery solutions for VxRail are. This includes a solution with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vSphere Replication (VR). You will learn how to plan and deploy an active-passive solution in this chapter.

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

  • Deploying an active-passive solution for VxRail
  • SRM appliance deployment
  • VR deployment
  • Configuring SRM inventory mappings
  • Protecting virtual machines
  • Creating SRM recovery plans