VxRail Architecture - Physical

LAN

Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity
Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive

• VxRail scales from 3 – 64 nodes/servers

• LAN switches are provided by customer (or can optionally be purchased from Dell EMC)

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VxRail Architecture - Logical

VxRail Log ESRS

vCSA PSC
Mgr Insight VE
LAN
VM VM VM VM VM

ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi

Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group

Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity
Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive

vSAN Datastore

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 Quanta (Pre-Implementation State)
3 1 192.168.10.200

ESXi (DHCP) ESXi (DHCP) VxRail Mgr

Services: loudmouth, Services: loudmouth, Services: Log
vCSA PSC
vxrail-election vxrail-election Loudmouth Insight
MARVIN
Local Data Store Local Data Store
Node Reset File: ESXi Cfg VM VM VM VM
Reset File: ESXi Cfg
Images: vCSA, Images: vCSA,
VxRail, LI, ESRS VxRail, LI, ESRS vsanDatastore

SATADOM 64GB SATADOM 64GB Disk Group

Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity

Drive Drive Drive Drive
BMC BMC Drive Drive Drive Drive

Chassis 1Gb 10Gb 10Gb 1Gb 10Gb 10Gb

(Static IP) (Static IP)

4 2
ESXi (DHCP) ESXi (DHCP)
Services: loudmouth, Services: loudmouth,
vxrail-election vxrail-election

Local Data Store Local Data Store

Reset File: ESXi Cfg Reset File: ESXi Cfg
Images: vCSA, Images: vCSA,
VxRail, LI, ESRS VxRail, LI, ESRS

SATADOM 64GB SATADOM 64GB

Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive Drive

BMC BMC
1Gb 10Gb 10Gb 1Gb 10Gb 10Gb
(Static IP) (Static IP)
 Dell (Pre-Implementation State)
1
192.168.10.200

ESXi (DHCP) VxRail Mgr

Services: loudmouth, Services: Log
vCSA PSC
vxrail-election Loudmouth Insight
Chassis MARVIN
Local Data Store
/ Node vFlash VM VM VM VM
Reset File: ESXi Cfg
Images: vCSA,
SD Card SD Card VxRail, LI, ESRS vsanDatastore

SATADOM 64GB Disk Group

Cache Capacity Capacity Capacity

Drive Drive Drive Drive

iDRAC
1Gb 10Gb 10Gb
(Static IP)
 Decode VxRail Model Number E 460F

SERIES
[G]eneral
[E]ntry
[P]erformance VENDOR MODEL HINT MODIFIER
[V]DI GENERATION [6] Dell R630 [F]lash only
[S]torage dense VxRail Gen 4 [7] Dell R730 PLACEHOLDER Hybrid

VxRail Model Vendor Rack Units Nodes per Drives per Node Notes
Chassis
G410(F) Quanta (T41S-2U) 2 4 6x2.5
E460(F) Dell (PowerEdge R630) 1 1 10x2.5
P470(F) Dell (PowerEdge R730) 2 1 16x2.5
V470(F) Dell (PowerEdge R730 w/GPU) 2 1 16x2.5 AMD or Nvidia GPU
S470 Dell (PowerEdge R730xd) 2 1 12x3.5, 2x2.5 (Cache) Hybrid only
Initial Network Configuration
vswitch0
Management Laptop/
Management switch Jump Host
VLAN 0
VxRail Manager
vm VLAN
12.34.56.78
VM Network 100
192.168.10.200
(Loudmouth service) VLAN 0

ESXi
ESXi Host ESXi
ESXi
other nodes
(Loudmouth service running on each)