Dell Vxrail system design and best practices a complete guide to Vxrail appliance design and best practices

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 bac...

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Otros Autores: Wu, Victor, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : Packt Publishing [2022]
Edición:1st ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 1
  • Scenario 2
  • 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 1
  • Failure scenario 2
  • Failure scenario 3
  • Failure scenario 4
  • Failure scenario 5
  • Failure scenario 6
  • 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 1
  • Failure scenario 2
  • Failure scenario 3
  • Failure scenario 4
  • Failure scenario 5
  • 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 1
  • Scenario 2
  • Scenario 3
  • Scenario 4
  • Scenario 5
  • Summary
  • Questions
  • Assessments
  • Index
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