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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, we need to ensure that our workstation is a Windows platform and that a web browser is installed. The latest versions of Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or above are all supported. The VxRail software is running in version 4.7.300 or above.

As regards the disk group upgrade, there is a free, available capacity drive installed in the VxRail node.

For the VxRail software upgrade, we downloaded the VxRail composite 7.0.010 upgrade package from the Dell support website, and then we prepared the VMware licenses of vSphere 7, vCenter Server 7, and vSAN 7.