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Extending Dell Technologies Cloud Platform Availability for Mission Critical Applications
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Hardware components

  • In total, we used fourteen VxRail E460F nodes running VxRail version 4.7.410 code on each node, which aligns with Cloud Foundation 3.9.1 requirements. For a complete bill of materials, see VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9.1 on Dell EMC VxRail Release Notes.

    The following table shows the hardware components that we used in this configuration. For this deployment, we deployed the VMware Cloud Builder utility on the VCF management domain cluster. If required, you can deploy this utility on separate infrastructure. We used a separate PowerEdge R630 server to host the vSAN witness components for the stretched clusters.

    Table 2.              Hardware resources

    Hardware

    Quantity

    Purpose

    Operating system/Firmware

    VxRail E460F server

    8

    Stretched VCF management domain, VCF Cloud Builder VM, and NSX DHCP VM

    ESXi6.7 U3b

    VxRail E460F server

    6

    Stretched VI workload domain connected to PowerMax SRDF/Metro devices

    ESXi6.7 U3b

    Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 server

    1

    Stand-alone server used as witness host for VCF vSAN stretched cluster

    ESXi6.7 U3b

    PowerMax 8000 Array

    1

    External storage for VCF VI workload domain. R1 of SRDF configuration

    PowerMaxOS 5978

    PowerMax 2000 Array

    1

    External storage for VCF VI workload domain. R2 of SRDF configuration

    PowerMaxOS 5978

    Cisco Nexus 9372PX Switch

    2

    L3 switches are used for VCF management, vMotion, vSAN, NSX VxLAN, vRealize Network

    7.0(3)I5(2)

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Software components