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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
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Section 3: Advanced Solutions for VxRail

Chapter 4: VxRail Management Overview

The previous chapter provided an overview of VxRail administration. You learned about all the administration interfaces that are used to manage Dell EMC VxRail appliances, including VxRail Manager, the VxRail Manager plugin for vCenter, vCenter Server, and iDRAC. VxRail appliances can deliver a central management dashboard for managing virtual machines. They also understand the architecture of VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) and the differences vis-à-vis traditional storage. Lastly, we listed a number of vSAN cluster scenarios based on the different settings of FTT and FTM.

In this chapter, we will provide an overview of VxRail management. We will learn about the functions of the VxRail Manager plugin for vCenter. We will become familiar with how to monitor the status of VxRail appliances with the VxRail Manager plugin for vCenter, how to manage vCenter roles and permissions in the VxRail cluster, and which roles and permissions are required...