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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

Technical requirements

In this chapter, you'll need to make sure your workstation (laptop) is running on the Windows platform, and that a web browser is installed on your laptop. The latest versions of Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or above are all supported. The VxRail software is running version 4.7.300 or above.

For the network requirements of the vSAN stretched cluster on VxRail, the latency or Round-Trip Time (RTT) between the primary and secondary sites hosting virtual machine (VM) objects should not be greater than 5 milliseconds, and the bandwidth between the primary and secondary sites should be a minimum of 10 Gbps or greater. In the vSAN stretched cluster configurations, the latency or RTT between the primary and secondary sites hosting VM objects and the witness node should not be greater than 200 milliseconds.

For the disaster recovery solution, there is a set of VxRail clusters (a minimum of four nodes each) running at both primary...