{"id":650,"date":"2019-04-01T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/?p=626"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:09:23","slug":"dell-emc-vxrail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/2019\/04\/01\/dell-emc-vxrail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell EMC VxRail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VxRail <\/strong>is the product that I&#8217;ve been thinking about writing for a while but I didn&#8217;t have time for health and business reasons so far.<\/p>\n<p>First, you can have your<strong> vSAN infrastructure<\/strong> in three ways.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To obtain the Appropriate equipment with our own facilities<\/li>\n<li>Get<strong> vSAN Read<\/strong>y <strong>Node<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Get <strong>VxRail<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When looking at the first two steps, you may have noticed\u00a0that hardware and software compatibility should be taken into account to be aware of problems thus this process can be complex and error-prone to some.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to use dive deeply to the products and force their limits or to try to switch to the most recent software, <strong>VxRail <\/strong>is not a very convenient product for you.<\/p>\n<p>So who is this <strong>VxRail<\/strong> suitable for?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Someone who does not want to keep a question mark on the head for compatibility,<\/li>\n<li>Someone who wants to make sure that the products are configured in the best way,<\/li>\n<li>Someone with limited employees in the IT team,<\/li>\n<li>Someone who wants to cover maintenance very easily.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you are a company that meets the above criteria, you have found the product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VxRail<\/strong> can be acquired both as <strong>hybrid<\/strong> and <strong>all-flash<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As shown below, you may buy\u00a0the VMware licenses with the product, or you can use your existing licenses as well.<\/p>\n<p>It is available\u00a0 free usage of <strong>vCenter<\/strong> when used only for <strong>VxRail<\/strong> <strong>management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Through<strong> EMC Secure Remote <\/strong>S<strong>ervice<\/strong>s<strong> (ESRS)<\/strong>, your infrastructure is monitored regularly for problems by the manufacturer and you get fast support when needed.<\/p>\n<p>With<strong> vRealize Log Insight<\/strong>, you can examine the detailed logs of the environment and protect your virtual servers by replicating them with <strong>Recoverpoint for VM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can obtain<strong>\u00a0Dell EMC<\/strong> <strong>Data Protection Suite<\/strong> software bundling with the product in a way that does not upset you and use your data protection products in an integrated way with <strong>vCenter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>vSan<\/strong> runs through the network infrastructure thus you also need switches that will work in a redundant manner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-632 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-1-1.png 702w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-1-1-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-1-1-660x290.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although <strong>VxRail <\/strong>has a complete <strong>vSan<\/strong> <strong>infrastructure<\/strong>, it follows innovations from <strong>1-1.5<\/strong> months behind to avoid compromising stability and compatibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VxRail Manager<\/strong> was in use as a separate product with a separate interface, so management functions could be compelling in<strong>\u00a0VxRail 4.5<\/strong> and earlier<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As of <strong>Vxrail 4.7<\/strong>, the<strong> Vxrail Manager<\/strong> tool is now running under the <strong>vCenter<\/strong> and requires no additional <strong>VMware<\/strong> knowledge for management operations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-644 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcenter_plugin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcenter_plugin.png 673w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcenter_plugin-245x300.png 245w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcenter_plugin-660x808.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Updates can be downloaded directly if the <strong>VxRail infrastructure<\/strong> is connected to the Internet, if not you can download via <strong>support.emc.com\u00a0<\/strong> and make local update.<\/p>\n<p>As can be seen below, the update covers\u00a0firmware, VMware and hardware drivers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-646 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-upgrade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3109\" height=\"1811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-upgrade.jpg 3109w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-upgrade-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-upgrade-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-upgrade-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-upgrade-660x384.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3109px) 100vw, 3109px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of <strong>April 2019<\/strong>, the following solutions are stated on <strong>Dell EMC<\/strong>&#8216;s site, but we know that the<strong> G series <\/strong>has not been in <strong>Turkey<\/strong> for some time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-635\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-comparison.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1386\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-comparison.png 1386w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-comparison-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-comparison-768x274.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-comparison-1024x366.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vxrail-comparison-660x236.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1386px) 100vw, 1386px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the next article I will try to explain the installation side, you can access the document <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/en\/2019\/04\/01\/dell-emc-vxrail-installation\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VxRail is the product that I&#8217;ve been thinking about 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To obtain the Appropriate equipment with our own facilities Get vSAN Ready Node Get VxRail When looking at the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyperconverged-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.arcak.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}