Dell EMC VxFlex Series - Table of Contents

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Preface 15
Introduction 17
Introduction to VxFlex Ready Node 19
What is VxFlex OS?....................................................................................20
System requirements.................................................................................. 21
Server requirements.......................................................................21
Other requirements....................................................................... 22
Boot drive......................................................................................22
Switch requirements......................................................................22
IP addresses.................................................................................. 23
Architecture 25
System....................................................................................................... 26
Hardware.......................................................................................26
Software........................................................................................26
The MDM cluster........................................................................................27
Storage definitions..................................................................................... 29
Protection Domains....................................................................... 29
Storage Pools................................................................................ 29
Acceleration Pools..........................................................................31
Fault Sets.......................................................................................31
Data layout.................................................................................... 32
Volumes.........................................................................................33
Naming.......................................................................................... 33
Protection and load balancing.....................................................................33
Rebuild.......................................................................................... 34
Rebuild throttling...........................................................................34
Rebalance......................................................................................35
Rebalance throttling...................................................................... 35
Checksum protection.................................................................... 36
ESXi vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)........................................37
Cache......................................................................................................... 38
Networking.................................................................................................40
IP Addresses.................................................................................. 41
VLAN support................................................................................ 42
Networking and connectivity - 13G servers................................... 43
Networking and connectivity - 14G servers................................... 50
Virtual IP Address.......................................................................................59
Monitor of SDC and SDS connections........................................................60
S.M.A.R.T. hardware monitoring................................................................ 60
Snapshots................................................................................................... 61
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