Dell Vxrail system design and best practices : a complete guide to Vxrail appliance design and best practices / Victor Wu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wu, Victor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware.

Virtual computer systems.

Operating systems (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Packt Publishing, [2022]

Biography/History:

Wu Victor: 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.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Part 2: Design of the VxRail Appliance 7.x System

Chapter 3: Design of vCenter Server

Internal vCenter Server with an external DNS

Overview

Internal vCenter Server with an internal DNS

External vCenter Server with an external DNS

External vCenter Server with customer-supplied VDS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Failover scenarios of RP4VM on VxRail

Chapter 10: Design of VxRail with Veeam Backup

Overview of VBR

Which platforms can be protected?

The 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule

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 3

Scenario 4

Scenario 5

Assessments

Index

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Designing a VxRail vSAN two-node cluster

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781804612101

1804612103

OCLC:

1354208875