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.
Table of Contents
- Overview of VxRail Appliance 7.x System
- Benefits of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
- Design of vCenter Server
- Design of vSAN Storage Policies
- Design of Cluster Expansion
- Design of vSAN 2-Node Cluster on VxRail
- Design of Stretched Cluster on VxRail
- Design of VxRail with SRM
- Design of RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines on VxRail
- Design of VxRail with Veeam Backup
Victor Wu has over 15 years of system infrastructure experience. Currently, he works as a senior solutions architect at BoardWare Information System Limited in Macau. He is the only qualified person in Macau with a certificate in VMware VCIX-DCV, and was awarded the vExpert certification from 2014 to 2022, Cisco Champion from 2017 to 2022, Veeam Vanguard from 2019 to 2022, and Nutanix Technology Champion in 2021. His professional qualifications include VCIX-DCV 2022, VMware Certified Master Specialist - HCI 2022, Implementation Engineer - VxRail Appliance, Systems Administrator - VxRail Appliance, Nutanix Certified Professional 5, NetApp HCI Implementation Engineer, and Knowledge Sharing Author from 2018 to 2021. He is the author of Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions, published by Packt Publishing in June 2021.
