Dell Validated Design for Retail Edge - Design Guide with inVia Robotics

• 1

  Introduction
• 2

  Partnership
• 3

  Use cases
• 4

  Summary

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  Architecture
• 2

  Architectural overview
• 3

  Architecture components
  • PowerEdge
  • VxRail
  • VxRail hardware
  • VxRail networking
  • VxRail software and management
  • Site Recovery Manager with VxRail
  • RecoverPoint for VMs with VxRail
  • VMware vSphere Replication
  • Dell Azure Stack HCI
  • Storage Spaces Direct
  • Azure ARC
  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Ubuntu with a KVM hypervisor architecture
  • Connected worker peripherals
  • inVia software architecture

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  System Design
• 2

  Overview
• 3

  Hardware platforms
• 4

  Deployment models
• 5

  Latencies and throughput
• 6

  Networking
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  VxRail network planning considerations
  • Top-of-Rack switch
  • VxRail requirements
  • VxRail network implementation overview
  • Multirack VxRail cluster considerations
  • Network redundancy
  • Network considerations after implementation
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  inVia system design

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  High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• 2

  What is high availability?
• 3

  High availability overview
• 4

  HA considerations
• 5

  What is disaster recovery?
• 6

  Disaster defined
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  DR overview
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  VxRail ISV application disaster recovery considerations
  • VxRail vSAN stretched cluster deployment
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager
  • RecoverPoint for VMs
  • VMware vSphere Replication
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  Azure Stack HCI ISV application disaster recovery considerations
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  KVM ISV application disaster recovery considerations
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  HA and DR with inVia Robotics
  • Robotic systems reinitialization after the point of system recovery
  • VxRail
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • KVM

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  Cybersecurity
• 2

  Security considerations
• 3

  International standards and technical reports on machine and robot safety
• 4

  Best practices and recommendations
  • Authentication, authorization, and accounting
  • Defense-in-depth
  • Principal of least privilege
  • Zero trust
  • Network segmentation
  • Hardening
  • Platform hardening
  • Azure HCI security considerations
  • OS hardening
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  Cybersecurity with inVia
  • inVia system ports requirements
  • Application hardening
  • Session management
  • Authorization and control
  • Accounting
  • Certificate management
  • Code signing process
  • Security patch update process
  • Secure inVia robots and Dell connected peripherals onboarding
  • Key management services

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  Serviceability and Maintenance
• 2

  Serviceability considerations
• 3

  Platform serviceability
• 4

  Serviceability with inVia SaaS and RaaS
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  inVia SaaS and RaaS installation
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  Add robots to inVia system
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  inVia code upgrade on software and robots
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  inVia system - unscheduled outage
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  inVia system - scheduled outage
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  inVia system backup and restore
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  inVia system remote monitoring
• 12

  inVia system – remote logging
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  inVia Robot error handling
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  inVia system errors
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  inVia FRU replacement
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  inVia system – decommission and data cleaning
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  inVia SLA
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  Release control matrix

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  Sizing and Scaling Guidance
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  Sizing and scaling overview
• 3

  Tested hardware configurations
• 4

  Optimized human picking and packing
• 5

  Cobot prefetch
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  inVia sizing guidelines
• 7

  inVia scaling guidelines

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  Bill of Materials
• 2

  Overview
• 3

  Platform size reference
• 4

  PowerEdge server configurations
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  Dell Azure Stack HCI server configurations
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  VxRail and vSAN Ready Node server configurations
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  Client devices

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  Conclusion

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  Additional Information
• 2

  About Dell Validated Designs
• 3

  inVia deployment options and configurations overview
• 4

  Ordering guidance
• 5

  Acronyms and terminology

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  References
• 2

  Dell Technologies documentation
• 3

  VMware documentation
• 4

  Azure documentation
• 5

  KVM documentation
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  inVia Robotics documentation
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  Support and feedback