Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices
A complete guide to VxRail appliance design and best practices
Victor Wu
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices
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Contributors
About the author
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.
About the reviewers
Venkata Krishna Mallemarapu is a senior systems integrations advisor with over 13 years of experience in IT. He holds certifications in the fields of hyper-converged infrastructure, virtualization, storage, and networking. Krishna completed his education in the fields of computer science, information technology, electronics, and biomedical engineering.
Krishna is a people-friendly person who loves to entertain. He loves exploring new places, playing ping-pong, volleyball, and tennis, and gardening.
Pradeep Adapa has worked in IT for more than 11 years, with more than 9 years specifically dedicated to virtualization. He is a blogger with a blog dedicated to hyper-converged systems, especially VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VxRail. He has a master’s in information systems from Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY. He is currently employed at Solera Inc, full-time, where he works primarily on VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11.x and vRealize products (VRA, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, VRNI, and VRSLCM). He has also been a vExpert for two consecutive years (2021–2022).