Dell VxRail 7.0 vSAN Stretched Cluster Planning Guide

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  Executive summary
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  Intended Use and Audience

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  Overview

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  VMware new features
• 2
  VxRail cluster nodes
• 3
  VxRail cluster deployment options
• 4
  VxRail cluster consideration
• 5
  vCenter Server requirements
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  Customer-supplied vCenter Server requirements

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  Sizing considerations
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  Host requirement calculation
• 3
  Cluster compute resource utilization
• 4
  Fault domains
• 5
  Distributed Resource Scheduler
• 6
  vSAN heartbeat
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  Witness device

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  L2 and L3 support
• 2
  Witness traffic separation
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  Supported geographical distances
• 4
  Bandwidth
• 5
  Site to witness network latency
• 6
  Intersite MTU
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  Connectivity

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  Appendix A: VxRail stretched cluster setup checklist

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  Appendix B: VxRail stretched cluster open protocol requirements

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  Site to site
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  Witness to site