TechBook—Dell EMC VxRail System

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HCI deployment models

Hyperconverged infrastructure: A modern infrastructure for modern IT challenges

Enabling technologies for HCI

Drivers for hyperconverged infrastructure adoption

Dell EMC hyperconverged infrastructure platforms

Dell EMC HCI delivers a turnkey customer experience

Dell EMC VxRail Systems

VxRail Security and Compliance

VxRail hardware architecture

VxRail cluster

VxRail models and specifications (based on latest generation Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers)

VxRail node

Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor: Powerful processing for VxRail

VxRail scaling

VxRail networking

Dell EMC Open Networking and VxRail

VxRail software architecture

System management

VMware vSphere

VMware vCenter Server

vCenter services and interfaces

Enhanced Linked Mode

VMware vSphere ESXi

Communication between vCenter Server and ESXi hosts

Virtual machines

Virtual networking

vMotion and Virtual Machine mobility

vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

vSphere High Availability (HA)

vCenter Server Watchdog

vSphere Encryption

vSAN

Disk groups

Hybrid and All-Flash differences

Flash endurance

Client cache

Objects and components

Witness

Replicas

Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)

Sparse Swap

I/O paths and caching algorithms Much of the content in this specific section has been extracted from an existing technical whitepaper: An overview of VMware vSAN Caching Algorithms.

vSAN high availability and fault domains

vSAN Stretched Cluster

2-Node Configuration

Snapshots

Storage efficiency using deduplication and compression

Erasure coding

vSAN Encryption

VxRail integrated software

VM Replication

VMware vSphere Replication

Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

VxRail replication use case

Support for external network storage

Fibre Channel with VxRail

iSCSI with VxRail

NFS with VxRail

VxRail solutions and ecosystem

VMware Validated Design with VxRail

VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail

Pivotal Ready Architecture (PRA)

Flexible consumption options

VDI Complete

VMware Horizon

VMware vSphere Platinum

IsilonSD Edge

SAP HANA Certification with VxRail

Reference Architecture for Splunk

Additional product information

Dell EMC ProSupport for Enterprise

Dell EMC ProDeploy Services for VxRail Systems

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