Dell VxRail Architecture Overview

Requirements

Supported platforms are described.

The following platforms support VxRail dynamic node cluster:

For more information about requirements and the supported storage types on various arrays, see Dell VxRail 8.0.x Support Matrix and Dell VxRail 7.0.x Support Matrix.

The following table provides the minimum VxRail required for storage protocols and types for VxRail 7.0.x:

Table 1. Minimum supported VxRail release for external primary storage options for (VxRail 7.0.x) Minimum supported VxRail release for external primary storage options for (VxRail 7.0.x)
Storage protocol	Storage type	> or =7.0.400	7.0.350	7.0.300	7.0.240
FC	VMFS	X	X	X	X
FC	vVols	X	—	—	—
FC-NVMe	VMFS	X	—	—	—
VC-NVMe	vVols	X	—	—	—
iSCSI	VMFS	X	X	—	—
iSCSI	vVols	X	—	—	—
NFS	File System	X	X	—	—
NFS	vVols	X	—	—	—
NVMe/TCP/IP	VMFS	X	—	—	—
NVMe/TCP/IP	vVols	—	—	—	—
PowerFlex	VMFS	X	X	X	—
VMware vSAN	VMware vSAN Cross-Cluster Capacity Sharing	X	X	X	X

The following table shows the minimum release that supports external primary storage options for VxRail 8.0.x:

Table 2. VxRail release for supported external primary storage options for (VxRail 8.0.x) VxRail release for supported external primary storage options for (VxRail 8.0.x)
Storage protocol	Storage type	8.0.000/8.0.x
FC	VMFS	X
FC	vVols	X
FC-NVMe	VMFS	X
FC-NVMe	vVols	X
iSCSI	VMFS	X
iSCSI	vVols	X
NFS	File System	X
NFS	vVols	X
NVMe/TCP/IP	VMFS	X
NVMe/TCP/IP	vVols	—
PowerFlex	VMFS	X
VMware vSAN	VMware vSAN Cross-Cluster Capacity Sharing	X