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
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  VxRail cluster nodes
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  VxRail cluster deployment options
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  VxRail cluster consideration
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  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
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  Cluster compute resource utilization
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  Fault domains
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  Distributed Resource Scheduler
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  vSAN heartbeat
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  Witness device

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  L2 and L3 support
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  Witness traffic separation
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  Supported geographical distances
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  Bandwidth
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  Site to witness network latency
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  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