Chapter 7: VxRail Scale-Out Operations

In an architecture of traditional servers and Storage Area Network (SAN) storage, a system scale-out is not an easy operation to configure. There are limitations in terms of system scale-outs in traditional servers and storage, such as the maximum number of CPU cores, system cache, and input/output operations per second (IOPS). If your system is a hyper-converged infrastructure, you can efficiently perform scale-out operations on the VxRail system. A VxRail scale-out is an easy operation for the system administrator.

In this chapter, we will learn the process of adding a node to a VxRail cluster. The cluster expansion is performed with the VxRail Manager plugin in VMware vCenter Server. This is the core ...

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