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Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions
Implementing VxRail HCI Solutions
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Preface
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Section 1: Getting Started with VxRail HCI System
Chapter 1: Overview of VxRail HCI
What is a VxRail Appliance?
What's in a VxRail Appliance?
VMware SDDC
VxRail HCI System Software
Data protection options
VxRail licensing
VxRail system architecture
VxRail system features
VxRail system management
VxRail resources
Summary
Questions
Chapter 2: VxRail Installation
Technical requirements
Environment
Site preparation for VxRail Appliance
Top-of-Rack switch requirement
DNS requirements
Power and rack space requirements
VxRail Appliance hardware installation
Mounting the VxRail appliances
Cabling VxRail appliances
VxRail Appliance initialization
Configuring a laptop for VxRail Manager connectivity
Building a VxRail cluster
VxRail validation
Summary
Questions
Section 2: Administration of VxRail
Chapter 3: VxRail Administration Overview
Technical requirements
VxRail management interfaces
VMware vSAN
Overview
vSAN objects
vSAN storage policy
VxRail cluster configuration
VxRail system virtual machines
vDS and port groups
VxRail disk groups
vSAN services
VxRail storage policy
Summary
Questions
Chapter 4: VxRail Management Overview
Technical requirements
VxRail Manager overview
The VxRail Manager plugin at the cluster level
The VxRail Manager plugin at the host level
VxRail monitoring
The VxRail Manager plugin for vCenter
VxRail events in vCenter
VxRail roles and permission management
Creating a user account with an HCIA Management role
Summary
Questions
Chapter 5: Managing VMware vSAN
Technical requirements
VMware vSAN service configuration
vSAN Deduplication and Compression
vSAN Encryption
vSAN Performance Service
The vSAN iSCSI target service
Advanced options
Defining vSAN storage policies
Overview of VM storage policies
Creating VM storage policies
Applying VM storage policies
Monitoring a vSAN cluster
vSAN health
vSAN virtual objects
vSAN resyncing objects
vSAN capacity
vSAN cluster level
vSAN host level
vSAN VM level
vSAN availability
Overview of vSAN fault domains
Creating vSAN fault domains
vSAN maintenance mode
Building VMs
Summary
Questions
Chapter 6: VxRail Upgrade
Technical requirements
VxRail disk group upgrade
Drive expansion procedures
Drive upgrade in the disk group
VxRail software upgrade
Accessing the VxRail upgrade procedure
Downloading the VxRail software
Upgrading the VxRail software from version 4.7 to version 7.0
Summary
Questions
Chapter 7: VxRail Scale-Out Operations
VxRail scale-out rules
Environment
VxRail cluster expansion
Preparation
Scale-out operation
Summary
Questions
Section 3: Advanced Solutions for VxRail
Chapter 8: Active-Passive Solution for VxRail
Technical requirements
Deploying an active-passive solution for VxRail
Solution with VR and SRM
SRM appliance deployment
VR deployment
Configuring SRM inventory mappings
Protecting virtual machines
Creating SRM recovery plans
Summary
Questions
Chapter 9: Active-Active Solution for VxRail
Technical requirements
Overview of the active-active solution for VxRail
VxRail cluster configuration
vCenter Server requirements
Network requirements
Deploying the active-active solution for VxRail
Deploying a vSAN stretched cluster witness
Configuring the VxRail vSAN stretched cluster
Overview of the active-active-passive solution for VxRail
Summary
Questions
Chapter 10: Migrating Virtual Machines into VxRail
Technical requirements
Understanding migration methodologies for VxRail
Migrating a virtual machine into VxRail with vSphere Replication
Environment
Migration flow
Creating a virtual machine replication session
Failing over a virtual machine
Migrating a virtual machine into VxRail with Storage vMotion
Environment
Migration flow
Using Storage vMotion
Summary
Questions
Assessments
Chapter 1 – Overview of VxRail HCI
Chapter 2 – VxRail Installation
Chapter 3 – VxRail Administration Overview
Chapter 4 – VxRail Management Overview
Chapter 5 – Managing VMware vSAN
Chapter 6 – VxRail Upgrade
Chapter 7 – VxRail Scale-Out Operations
Chapter 8 – Active-Passive Solution for VxRail
Chapter 9 – Active-Active Solution for VxRail
Chapter 10 – Migrating Virtual Machines into VxRail
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