Chapter 7: VxRail Scale-Out Operations
In an architecture of traditional servers and Storage Area Network (SAN) storage, a system scale-out is not an easy operation to configure. There are limitations in terms of system scale-outs in traditional servers and storage, such as the maximum number of CPU cores, system cache, and input/output operations per second (IOPS). If your system is a hyper-converged infrastructure, you can efficiently perform scale-out operations on the VxRail system. A VxRail scale-out is an easy operation for the system administrator.
In this chapter, we will learn the process of adding a node to a VxRail cluster. The cluster expansion is performed with the VxRail Manager plugin in VMware vCenter Server. This is the core feature provided by VxRail; that is, to allow a configuration from three nodes (the minimum configuration).
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- VxRail scale-out rules
- VxRail cluster expansion...