Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices: A complete guide to VxRail appliance design and best practices
- Length: 328 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 2022-12-23
- ISBN-10: 1804617709
- ISBN-13: 9781804617700
- Sales Rank: #703581 (See Top 100 Books)
Design, build, and protect your clusters with ease with VxRail, Dell’s hyper-converged infrastructure solution, and this comprehensive in-depth guide
Key Features
- Combine your virtualization systems into one with this comprehensive guide to VxRail
- Protect against data loss with a variety of backup, replication, and recovery options
- Take your virtualization skills to the next level thanks to Dell’s hyper-converged infrastructure
Book Description
Virtualized systems are well established now, and their disparate components can be found bundled together in hyper-converged infrastructures, such as VxRail from Dell EMC. Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices will take you, as a system architect or administrator, through the process of designing and protecting VxRail systems.
While this book assumes a certain level of knowledge of VMware, vSphere 7.x, and vCenter Server, you’ll get a thorough overview of VxRail’s components, features, and architecture, as well as a breakdown of the benefits of this hyper-converged system. This guide will give you an in-depth understanding of VxRail, as well as plenty of practical examples and self-assessment questions along the way to help you plan and design every core component of a VxRail system – from vSAN storage policies to cluster expansion. It’s no good having a great system if you lose everything when it breaks, so you’ll spend some time examining advanced recovery options, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager and Veeam Backup and Replication.
By the end of this book, you will have got to grips with Dell’s hyper-converged VxRail offering, taking your virtualization proficiency to the next level.
What you will learn
- Design vSAN storage policies
- Scale-out and expand clusters
- Design stretched clusters
- Protect your system with VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Discover how to configure EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines
- Integrate Veeam Backup and Replication with VxRail
- Set up a vSAN 2-node cluster
Who this book is for
This book is for system architects, system administrators, or consultants involved in planning and designing VxRail HCI. The reader is expected to have equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware vSphere 7. x and vCenter Server 7.x.
Cover Title Page Copyright and Credits Contributors Table of Contents Preface Part 1: Getting Started with the VxRail Appliance 7.x System Chapter 1: Overview of VxRail Appliance 7.x System What is VxRail Appliance? What is inside VxRail Appliance? VxRail licensing Dell VxRail architecture Dell VxRail features Dell VxRail management Dell VxRail documentation and resources Summary Questions Chapter 2: Benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure What’s new in VxRail 15th generation? VxRail nodes with vSAN VxRail standard cluster with external storage VxRail standard cluster with vSAN HCI Mesh VxRail dynamic nodes VxRail dynamic node cluster with vSAN HCI Mesh VxRail satellite nodes Scenario Summary Questions Part 2: Design of the VxRail Appliance 7.x System Chapter 3: Design of vCenter Server Internal vCenter Server with an external DNS Overview Scenario Internal vCenter Server with an internal DNS Overview Scenario External vCenter Server with an external DNS Overview Scenario External vCenter Server with customer-supplied VDS Overview Scenario Summary Questions Chapter 4: Design of vSAN Storage Policies An overview of VMware vSAN on VxRail An overview of vSAN objects and components Failures to tolerate with RAID-1 mirroring Failures to tolerate with RAID-5 erasure coding Failures to tolerate with RAID-6 erasure coding VMware vSAN storage policies vSAN storage policy scenario VMware vSAN HCI Mesh Summary Questions Chapter 5: Design of Cluster Expansion Overview of VxRail scale-out rules Scenario Scenario Design of disk groups on VxRail E-Series An unsupported scenario of scale-up on VxRail E-Series A supported scenario of scale-up on VxRail E-Series Design of disk groups on VxRail P-Series An unsupported scenario of scale-up on VxRail P-Series A supported scenario of scale-up on VxRail P-Series Design of disk groups on VxRail V-Series An unsupported scenario of scale-up on VxRail V-Series A supported scenario of scale-up on VxRail V-Series Design of disk groups on VxRail S-Series An unsupported scenario of scale-up on VxRail S-Series A supported scenario of scale-up on VxRail S-Series Design of disk groups on VxRail D-Series An unsupported scenario of scale-up on VxRail D-Series A supported scenario of scale-up on VxRail D-Series Design of disk groups on VxRail G-Series An unsupported scenario of scale-up on VxRail G-Series A supported scenario of scale-up on VxRail G-Series Summary Questions Chapter 6: Design of vSAN 2-Node Cluster on VxRail Overview of VxRail vSAN two-node clusters The architecture of a VxRail vSAN two-node cluster Central management and localized witness Localized management and witness Central management and witness Designing a VxRail vSAN two-node cluster Direct-connect configuration Switch configuration A scenario using a VxRail vSAN two-node cluster vSphere Distributed Switch External vCenter Server Failure scenarios of a VxRail vSAN two-node cluster Scenario one Scenario two Scenario three Scenario four Summary Questions Part 3: Design of Data Protection for the VxRail System Chapter 7: Design of Stretched Cluster on VxRail Overview of VxRail Stretched Cluster The architecture of VxRail Stretched Cluster Site disaster tolerance Failures to tolerate Site mirroring with RAID-1 Site mirroring with RAID-5 Keeping the data in the preferred site Design of VxRail Stretched Cluster VxRail Stretched Cluster without WTS VxRail Stretched Cluster with WTS VMware vCenter Server options A scenario using VxRail Stretched Cluster Network settings Storage settings Software licenses Failure scenarios of VxRail Stretched Cluster Failure scenario one Failure scenario two Failure scenario three Failure scenario four Failure scenario five Summary Questions Chapter 8: Design of VxRail with SRM Overview of VMware SRM VM replication Storage-based replication SRM licensing Overview of VxRail with VMware SRM Uni-directional protection Bi-directional protection The design of VxRail with VMware SRM The benefits of VxRail with VMware SRM Failover scenarios of VxRail with VMware SRM Failure scenario Failure scenario Failure scenario Failure scenario Failure scenario Failure scenario Summary Questions Chapter 9: Design of RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines on VxRail Overview of RP4VM vRPA adapters vRPA performance profiles CGs Journal volumes Overview of RP4VM on VxRail Local replication Remote replication Licensing Simple support matrix The benefits of RP4VM The design of RP4VM on VxRail Network settings Storage settings Software licenses Failover scenarios of RP4VM on VxRail Failure scenario Failure scenario Failure scenario Failure scenario Failure scenario Summary Questions Chapter 10: Design of VxRail with Veeam Backup Overview of VBR Which platforms can be protected? The 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule Licensing Overview of backup job modes Veeam Agent backup Overview of VxRail with VBR Benefits of VxRail with VBR CDP Hardened Linux repository Archive tier Instant recovery for SQL, Oracle, and NAS Veeam-powered BaaS and DRaaS Design of VxRail with VBR VxRail with VBR in a site VxRail with VBR across two sites Recovery scenarios of VxRail with VBR Scenario Scenario Scenario Scenario Scenario Summary Questions Assessments Index Other Books You May Enjoy
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