- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- Introduction
- VxRail overview
- VMware vCenter Server
- VxRail cluster with VMware vSAN
- VxRail stretched cluster with VMware vSAN
- VxRail 2-node cluster with VMware vSAN
- VxRail dynamic node clusters
- Secondary storage
- Satellite nodes
- VxRail stretched cluster with VMware vSAN open protocol requirements
- Bandwidth calculation examples
Dell VxRail Architecture Overview
VxRail cluster with VMware vSAN
VxRail supports a single cluster type that is called a standard cluster. A standard cluster can be defined as three or more VxRail nodes sharing a single VMware vSAN datastore for storage resources. VMware vSAN is embedded with the VxRail software stack that enables the VMware vSphere data store to support VM workloads.
For a VxRail standard cluster, compatible storage devices are installed in the chassis slots in the factory to support the VMware vSAN data store. When the VxRail cluster is built in the target data center, the VMware vSAN service discovers the storage devices across all the connected VxRail nodes using the VMware vSAN network and forms the VMware vSAN data store.
Use cases
The VxRail standard cluster with VMware vSAN is a virtualization platform provides for general-purpose use cases and can support numerous of VM workloads. Storage devices of varying capacity and performance can be used in the VxRail standard cluster to align with performance and scalability requirements for VMs running on a VMware vSAN datastore.
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