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Dell VxRail Network Planning Guide
Introduction Planning Your Data Center Network for VxRail VxRail Cluster Types
Introduction to cluster types
Cluster with vSAN storage
Dynamic cluster
vSAN stretched cluster
2-node cluster
Satellite nodes
VxRail Feature-Driven Decision Points VxRail Hardware and Switch Selection Decision Points Prepare Data Center for VxRail Implementation Planning the VxRail Cluster Implementation Planning vSAN Witness Networking Planning VxRail Satellite Nodes Networking Configure the Network for VxRail Preparing to Build the VxRail Cluster VxRail Network Considerations After Implementation Appendixes

Introduction to cluster types

Introduction to cluster types

  • The primary building block for VxRail is the individual node, and a collection of nodes are then used to form a VxRail cluster and placed under a single point of management. The nodes can be customized with specific components to support different VxRail cluster types based on business and operational requirements.

    The VxRail nodes can be customized to provide all the physical compute, network, and storage resources for the cluster. This is accomplished by using the local disk drives on each node to form a vSAN datastore as the primary storage resource for application workload. Alternatively, the nodes can be customized without local disk drives to instead use external data center resources for primary storage.

    This chapter is an introduction to the types of clusters supported with VxRail, and the types of use cases that can be supported with each cluster type.