Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices

Design build and protect your clusters with ease with VxRail Dells hyper-converged infrastructure solution and this comprehensive in-depth guideKey FeaturesCombine your virtualization systems into one with this comprehensive guide to VxRailProtect against data loss with a variety of backup replication and recovery optionsTake your virtualization skills to the next level thanks to Dells hyper-converged infrastructureBook DescriptionVirtualized 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 youll get a thorough overview of VxRails 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. Its no good having a great system if you lose everything when it breaks so youll 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 Dells hyper-converged VxRail offering taking your virtualization proficiency to the next level.What you will learnDesign vSAN storage policiesScale-out and expand clustersDesign stretched clustersProtect your system with VMware Site Recovery ManagerDiscover how to configure EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual MachinesIntegrate Veeam Backup and Replication with VxRailSet up a vSAN 2-node clusterWho this book is forThis 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.