VxRail Manager
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for software-defined data center (SDDC) building blocks
including compute, network, storage, and management. VxRail Manager streamlines deployment,
configuration, and management for easier initial setup and ongoing operations.
VxRail Manager also provides integration for EMC services and support to help you get the most out of
your VxRail Appliance.
With VxRail Manager you can:
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Monitor system health with deep hardware intelligence and graphical representation
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View appliance software versions and updates
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Access EMC Online Support and eServices
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Access community resources such as the user forum and knowledgebase
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Use the VxRail
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Market to access qualified EMC software products
Storage and virtualization
The VxRail Series integrates VMware Virtual SAN and virtualization to provide a complete
hyperconverged infrastructure.
Storage
VMware Virtual SAN is integrated in your VxRail Appliance to provide Software-Defined Storage (SDS).
Virtual SAN is not a VSA, but is embedded in the ESXi hypervisor kernel’s I/O data path. As a result,
Virtual SAN can deliver the higher performance with minimum CPU and memory overhead.
Virtual SAN pools the VxRail Appliance's internal SSDs and HDDs on the ESXi hosts to present a single
datastore for all hosts in the cluster. Virtual SAN uses a highly available, distributed, object-based
architecture. Virtual SAN mirrors and distributes the individual virtual disk (VMDK) across the datastore.
Virtualization
The VxRail Series lets virtualization infrastructure administrators manage storage on a per-VM basis. This
VM-centric approach allows for storage policies to be defined at VM-level granularity for provisioning and
load balancing. Virtual SAN is fully integrated with vSphere, which simplifies setting up the availability,
capacity, and performance policies.
For scale-out, VxRail Manager uses VMware Loudmouth auto-discovery capabilities, based on the RFC-
recognized "Zero Network Configuration" protocol, to automatically discover and configure appliances on
your network. Loudmouth runs on each ESXi host and in theVxRail Manager virtual machine. Loudmouth
allows VxRail Manager to discover all the nodes and automate the configuration. Loudmouth requires
IPv6 multicast. The IPv6 multicast communication is strictly limited to the management VLAN that the
nodes use for communication.
Architecture overview
VCE VxRail
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Appliance 3.5 Product Guide
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