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

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.

The correct process is to sign up on the Live Optics website, download the collector, and deploy it on a suitable workstation or server in the environment to gather data without impacting the vCenter Server directly.

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.

The PowerStore 5200T connected via NVMe/TCP supports integration with a VxRail-managed vCenter on the local cluster, enabling optimized storage performance and management within the VxRail ecosystem.

In the VxRail Sizing Tool, when enabling compression on VxRail vSAN, the default Compression Filter ratio is set to 2:1. This means that the tool assumes a 2:1 data reduction ratio due to compression, effectively halving the storage requirements for the specified workload. This default setting helps in estimating the storage capacity needed for the deployment, though actual compression ratios may vary based on the specific data characteristics.

VD-4510 with 3 NVMe SSDs and 25 GbE networking is a valid ESA node configuration optimized for performance with NVMe storage and higher bandwidth.

E660N with 3 NVMe SSDs and 10 GbE networking also qualifies as a valid ESA node configuration balancing NVMe storage with 10 GbE network connectivity.

To maintain compatibility in a vSAN OSA cluster, node types that match the existing architecture, such as E660N and E660, can be added, ensuring consistent hardware and software support.

Validating the environment before deployment ensures readiness and reduces deployment issues.

Sharing configurations between project members facilitates collaboration and consistency.

Validating the configuration settings helps confirm correct setup prior to deployment.

Live Optics is the tool designed to gather detailed application and virtual environment workload data from existing environments to aid in sizing and planning VxRail deployments.