Harnessing the Performance of Dell EMC VxRail 7.0.100—A Lab-Based Performance Analysis

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  VxRail overview
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  Latest updates and performance improvements
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  Document purpose
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  Audience
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  Authors and contributors

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  Introduction
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  Conclusion #1: vSAN is significantly faster
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  Conclusion #2: Moving to RAID 5 provides significant benefits
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  Conclusion #3: vSAN compression-only is nearly penalty-free
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  Conclusion #4: vSAN 7.0 U1 provides faster drive rebuild times
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  Conclusion #5: NVMe cache drives provide maximum storage performance

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  Conclusion

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  VMware documentation

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  Test team
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  Test setup
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  Test methodology