D-VXR-DS-00 Dell VxRail Design Questions and Answers

For VxRail, vSAN requires a minimum of 10 GbE bandwidth for Older Software Architectures (OSA) and 25 GbE for Enhanced Software Architectures (ESA) to meet performance and reliability standards.

The VxRail Solution Summary report provides a concise overview of the configured solution, serving as an input for Sales Ordering tools to facilitate procurement and deployment.

For proper network resolution in a VxRail deployment using external DNS, valid lookup records are required for vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and discovery addresses to ensure all critical components can be located and communicate correctly.

VxRail Dynamic Nodes are specified when a customer wants to refresh their server environment but already has a PowerStore 5200T storage array, allowing integration of external storage with VxRail compute nodes.

The vSAN witness virtual appliance requires connectivity to the Management network for administrative access and the dedicated vSAN witness network to handle witness traffic for cluster quorum.

When deploying VxRail with an existing customer-managed vCenter, the Cluster Object must be preconfigured to provide a container for the new VxRail nodes and resources during deployment.

Site disaster tolerance set to Site Mirroring (stretched cluster) combined with RAID 1 mirroring provides fault tolerance against site failure with the ability to tolerate 2 failures or 1 failure respectively, ensuring data availability during a single data center outage.

After selecting the project and solution type in the VxRail Sizing Tool, the next step is to enter the workload requirements to tailor the sizing and configuration recommendations accurately.

Only a new VxRail-managed vCenter Server platform supports the built-in vCenter HA capability required for high availability in VxRail environments.