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Ask the Experts: Introducing the new Dell EMC VxRail™ Appliance
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Welcome to our Ask the Experts conversations about the new Dell EMC VxRail™ Appliance
The Dell EMC VxRail Appliance Family, the industry’s only HCI appliances specifically developed and fully optimized for VMware environments, now have configurations powered by the latest Intel Broadwell Platforms, VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN technologies and based on PowerEdge servers. The new Dell EMC VxRail Appliances feature 40% more CPU performance for the same price, increased flexibility and scalability with more configurations than before, all-flash nodes equipped with 2x more storage and a new 3-node entry point that is 25% less expensive.
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Now, we invite you to be part of the discussion and directly engage with our SMEs and community members, ask technical questions, and learn how the Dell EMC VxRail Appliance offers:
Flexibility and choice: A wide range of platforms and configure-to-order hardware are designed to address any use case. The addition of Dell PowerEdge servers expands the portfolio to deliver GPU hardware, dense storage and high performance computing options, allowing you the flexibility to choose the VxRail Appliance that is best for your need. Single node scaling and storage capacity expansion provide a predictable, “pay-as-you-grow” approach for future scale up and out as your business and user requirements evolve.
Scalability and performance: Based on VMware vSphere and vSAN software, and built with new Intel Broadwell processors, the VxRail Appliance allows you to start small and grow, scaling capacity and performance easily and non-disruptively. All-flash VxRail Appliances include efficient and in-line deduplication, compression, and erasure coding. With these enterprise-class data services VxRail delivers high performance all-flash with increased usable capacity.
Usability and management: VxRail Appliance provides existing VMware customers an experience with which they are already familiar. VM management through vCenter Server, and IT and Cloud automation with vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation lets you seamlessly integrate VxRail into your existing data center infrastructure.
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Meet Your Experts:
| Product Line Marketing Manager, VMware Hanoch is the lead product marketing manager for VxRail at VMware. He helped grow the converged and hyper-converged markets since their inception in 2010. Hanoch presented at various industry events and authored blogs and articles. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley. |
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| Product Marketing Manager Shannon is a Product Marketing Manager for Hyper-Converged Appliances at Dell EMC. She has worked in the technology industry for over 15 years, with global experience in engineering, supply chain, channel partners, and marketing. Twitter: @smchampion |
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| Product Marketing Joe Vukson is part of the Product Marketing team bringing the VCE Hyper-Converged Appliance to market. While at EMC he has executed numerous successful launches for the VSPEX Reference Architecture program as well as VSPEX BLUE. Prior to EMC, he held marketing and product marketing leadership positions and delivered successful marketing and communications initiatives for startups and the world’s largest technology companies. |
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| Product Manager – VxRail Richard has been part of the VxRail Product Management team for almost two years, and is currently the lead Product Manager for VxRail 4.0. He has been with Dell EMC for three years, where previously, he worked as a Solutions Manager for the VSPEX RA program. Richard has worked in high tech for almost 30 years, holding a wide range of positions in Europe, Asia, and North America. He currently lives near Seattle, where the weather reminds him of The Netherlands where he grew up. |
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| Director, Product Management Rick leads Product Management for the VxRail Hyper-Converged Appliances. Prior to this role he led Strategic Alliances for VxRail and the VSPEX reference architecture programs. He has over 25 years of experience as a vendor in high-technology companies with roles ranging from engineering, sales, marketing and business development. |
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| Hyper-converged Specialist, CPSD Aaron is a technical field consultant for VxRail and VxRack covering Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas (based out of Dallas, TX). He has over 10 years of experience in technical sales focused on server/storage/virtualized solutions. |
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| Jeremy Merrill Global Principal Consultant, HCIA Jeremy has over 15 years of experience working at EMC and NetApp. He’s currently part of the Global Sales Enablement Engineering team within the Hyper-converged Business Unit at EMC. Prior to joining the HCI business unit, he held roles at EMC in DPAD business unit, as a Mid-Tier SE (supporting Isilon and VNX. In addition, he was part of the Data Protection Technical Marketing team at NetApp, focusing on replication technologies. He’s a resident of Raleigh, NC and an alumnae of Florida State University. |
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| Global Principal Consultant Curtis has been at EMC for 10 years in several different technical roles ranging from Field SE, DPAD SE, Partner SE, Principal Global SE as well as being one of the key members of the Emerging Technologies Team, the VSPEX Global Enablement Team and is currently part of the Dell EMC Worldwide Enablement and Engineering Team for the VxRail family. |
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Justin King Senior Business Development Manager – Hyper Converged Infrastructure Solutions Justin has been involved with the IT industry for over 19 years where he has held various roles and responsibilities ranging from administration duties to architecting critical business solutions. Since joining VMware in 2009, Justin has supported sales teams, evangelized multiple VMware technologies as a product specialist, installed confidence with the VMware's SDDC Suite by designing and testing end to end reference architectures (VVDs) and currently seeks out business opportunities delivering business solutions on Dell EMC VxRail appliances. Justin is a native Brit residing in the state of Texas. Follow him on twitter @VxJustinKing |
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kwmt
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November 24th, 2016 00:00
Hi VxJustinKing,
Thank you for your information.
Could I let question again ?
In VxRail 4.0 and later, is it possible to split vSphere VSAN clusters or using linked mode vCenter due to differences in workload and model ?
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November 28th, 2016 10:00
Hi Kawaman, Sorry for the delayed response. I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking if a VRail cluster can support multiple vSAN clusters? That is not possible. Each VxRail cluster supports one vSAN cluster. You can manage separate VxRail cluster from a single, external vCenter instance. Please elaborate on your question if I did not answer it.
kwmt
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November 28th, 2016 17:00
Hi Richard,
My question is whether the following configuration is possible.
Re: Ask the Experts: Introducing the new Dell EMC VxRail™ Appliance
" Each VxRail cluster supports one vSAN cluster. You can manage separate VxRail cluster from a single, external vCenter instance."
In this case, is it possible to configure the scenario 4 ? or scenario 3 ?
yasichi
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November 29th, 2016 03:00
Hello,
Could anyone answer to my questions below?
Q1) Can Error and Critical events of SSD Wearing monitering be reported via e-mail or SNMP trap?
Q2) Does the upgrade from version 3.5 to 4.0 remove all data? or do data-in-place-upgrade?
Q3) Are there ways that the specified VMs and VMDKs work only on one specified Series when multiple Series are in a cluster?
Q4) Can I add one node to a different Series cluster? For example, Can 4 G-Series nodes and 1 E-Series node be configured in a cluster? (I understood first 4 nodes are the same sereis and at least 3 nodes per series are needed. Let me ask it again.)
VxJustinKing
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November 29th, 2016 09:00
If you wanted to keep workloads based on a specific series you would use vSphere DRS (vSphere Ent+) to provide placement of the VM or for VM and VMDK put each series in its own VxRail cluster and place workloads into the relevant cluster.
Today there is no notion of a vSAN level affinity and anti affinity rules at this time and I would need to understand why data placement would be an issue here, this is something the vSAN team are evaluating.
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November 29th, 2016 09:00
1) Wear monitoring is reported in VxRail 4.0 via VxRail manager and communicated back to Dell EMC via ESRS if it requires a drive replacement
2) The VxRail 3.5 to 4.0 upgrade is non disruptive
3) Yes, this is possible with failure domains in the
4) Yes, mixed node types are supported with some restrictions,
Please see the VxRail technical materials (Tech Book or Technical Deck) for more details.
RobertoAraujo1
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November 29th, 2016 09:00
Hi folks, due to an increase on demand we're posponing this thread until Friday Dec. 2nd. Keep the questions coming!
ColinGallagher
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November 29th, 2016 09:00
eHtx6oB2861203320032605You cannot configure VxRail manager to manage two separate clusters. You must have one VxRail manager instance per cluster.
VxJustinKing
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November 29th, 2016 09:00
scenario 4 will give you the desired outcome
kwmt
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November 29th, 2016 22:00
Hi ColinGallagher, thank you for your comment.
I could understand VxRail manager and Cluster design.
kwmt
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November 29th, 2016 22:00
Hi VxJustinKing, thank you for your information.
It is very good information that scenario 4 configuration will be possible.
yasichi
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December 1st, 2016 02:00
VxJustinKing and ColinGallgher, Thank you for the answer, but let me ask again about No.3.
Does failure domains mean fault domains? I understand each mirror of VMDK store in different fault domains. So I think fault domains cannot have both mirrors of VMDK store in same Series nodes.
yasichi
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December 1st, 2016 03:00
Hello, I have additional questions.
1) Solve Desktop doesn't support VxRail 4.0 yet. When will any procedures for VxRail 4.0 be released?
2) Rail kit can be selected from 3 types. Please provide the details of each type of rail kit. Also provide length of each rail and width of each series chassis with rail. I couldn't mount VxRail 3.5 on my rack before, so I'd like to know accurate size of VxRail 4.0.
VxJustinKing
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December 1st, 2016 07:00
let's not confuse disk groups with fault domains, a disk group will have a copy of the VMDK and will be mirrored to another disk group when no fault domain is defined. Using fault domains to protect from additional failures the mirror will be across fault domains based on policy. So if you have a series specific fault domain it will have a copy of the VMDK used, if multiple hosts are part of the fault domain the is no guarantee the VM host will also have the VMDK local but there will be an active copy on the specific series, there is no requirement for local VMDK as the VM can be VMotioned around the cluster and where your DRS rules will take effect, this does not move the VMDK host.
You can use vSphere DRS to set affinity VM-Hosts rules for specific workloads to run on the specific series of VxRail.
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December 1st, 2016 07:00
@yasichi