This Dell Validated Design is highly available from a compute, storage, and network perspective. This is an N+1 design, and no single hardware component failure will result in a failure of the platform.
This includes but is not limited to:
- Single MC node failure
- Single PowerFlex node failure
- Single ToR switch failure
- Single aggregation switch failure
- Single physical NIC failure
- Individual switchport and cabling failures throughout the design
Perform your own validation of each of these failure scenarios prior to running workloads on the solution.
During solution validation, Dell engineering leveraged VMFleet, a synthetic load generation tool that is widely adopted by the Microsoft community, for much of its testing. Dell ran all failure testing while generating workload traffic with VMFleet. VMFleet continued to run as expected during the failure scenarios listed above.