Design, build, and protect your clusters with ease with VxRail, Dell's hyper-converged infrastructure solution, and this comprehensive in-depth guide Key Features Combine your virtualization systems into one with this comprehensive guide to VxRail Protect against data loss with a variety of backup, replication, and recovery options Take your virtualization skills to the next level thanks to Dell's hyper-converged infrastructure Book DescriptionVirtualized systems are well established now, and their disparate components can be found bundled together in hyper-converged infrastructures, such as VxRail from Dell EMC. Dell VxRail System Design and Best Practices will take you, as a system architect or administrator, through the process of designing and protecting VxRail systems. While this book assumes a certain level of knowledge of VMware, vSphere 7.x, and vCenter Server, you'll get a thorough overview of VxRail's components, features, and architecture, as well as a breakdown of the benefits of this hyper-converged system. This guide will give you an in-depth understanding of VxRail, as well as plenty of practical examples and self-assessment questions along the way to help you plan and design every core component of a VxRail system - from vSAN storage policies to cluster expansion. It's no good having a great system if you lose everything when it breaks, so you'll spend some time examining advanced recovery options, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager and Veeam Backup and Replication. By the end of this book, you will have got to grips with Dell's hyper-converged VxRail offering, taking your virtualization proficiency to the next level. What you will learn Design vSAN storage policies Scale-out and expand clusters Design stretched clusters Protect your system with VMware Site Recovery Manager Discover how to configure EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines Integrate Veeam Backup and Replication with VxRail Set up a vSAN 2-node cluster Who this book is forThis book is for system architects, system administrators, or consultants involved in planning and designing VxRail HCI. The reader is expected to have equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware vSphere 7. x and vCenter Server 7.x.

Plan, design, deploy, and administer the solutions available in VxRail Appliance Key Features Learn how to plan and design the VxRail HCI system Understand VxRail's administration, lifecycle management, and cluster scale-out Explore migration methodologies for VxRail systems Book DescriptionHyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) can help you simplify the provisioning and daily operations of computing and storage. With this book, you'll understand how HCI can offload the day 0 deployment and day-to-day operations of a system administrator. You'll explore the VxRail Appliance, which is an HCI solution that provides lifecycle management, automation, and operational simplicity. Starting with an overview of the VxRail Appliance system architecture and components, you'll understand the benefits of the VxRail system and compare it with the environment of traditional servers and storage. As you advance, the book covers topics such as disaster recovery and active-active and active-passive solutions for VxRail. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to manage the deployment, administration, planning, and design of a VxRail system. What you will learn Set up the hardware and software requirements for a VxRail installation Monitor the status of VxRail appliances with the VxRail Manager plugin Get to grips with all the administration interfaces used to manage the VxRail appliance Understand vCenter roles and permissions management in the VxRail cluster Discover best practices for vSAN configuration in the VxRail cluster Find out about VxRail cluster scale-out rules and how to expand the VxRail cluster Deploy active-passive solutions for VxRail with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Who this book is forIf you are a system architect, system administrator, or consultant involved in planning and deploying VxRail HCI or want to learn how to use VxRail HCI, then this book is for you. Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with ESXi and vCenter Server will be helpful.

Over 40 practical recipes to get your hands dirty with the powerful Cisco UCS and overcome various challenges About This Book * Master the skills of minimizing cost, enabling your business to work faster by reducing cycle times for reporting and improving overall revenue * Work through hands-on recipes for efficient deployment approaches, see computing techniques, and explore new operational models with UCS * Render a better work-flow management, ensure effective monitoring, and learn new deployment paradigms for the operational infrastructure with the help of this book Who This Book Is For This book is for competent system/network or storage administrators who are working with Cisco UCS, but now want to learn new ways to compute UCS. What You Will Learn * Familiarize yourself with information on the latest information on memory management practices, virtualization architectures, and the specific technical advantages of UCS * Get a concrete understanding of integrating processes and techniques to ensure effective convergence of LAN/SAN * Get to know the best practices of Cisco UCS, EMC Storage, and VMware vSphere * Master migrating data from other band servers or Blade to Cisco UCS * Comprehend how to replicate and back up UCS to remote sites UCS * Assimilate innovative techniques to deploy UCS to leverage its full potential * Gather information on installing and configuring automatic and manual Pinning * Discover ways to integrate a system in Cisco UCS In Detail Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a data center server platform that is used for computing, deploying, and storing resources in data center environments. This cookbook aims to teach you about various tasks you can implement to improve your existing method of configuring and deploying UCS. You will start by learning how to upgrade your firmware on Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switch and will move on to enhance your knowledge of LAN connectivity. We will then discuss how to configure Windows 2008 and 2012 local boot in Cisco UCS. Next, you will learn how to install the operating system on Cisco UCS and use Cisco UCS Power Calculator to calculate the UCS consumption. Finally, we'll take a look at backup solutions. By the end of the book, you will know several ways to build and compute in data center environment using Cisco UCS. Style and approach This guide explains every task in a conversational and easy-to-follow style. You can open this book up to the task you want to learn and will be able to perform that task by the end of the recipe.