Implementing Cisco HyperFlex Solutions (Networking Technology)

✍ Scribed by Jalpa Patel, Manuel Velasco, Avinash Shukla

• Publisher: Cisco Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 766
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cisco HyperFlex solutions enhance data center efficiency, agility, and resiliency by tightly integrating core infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and system management), increasing automation, and simplifying lifecycle management. This authoritative, comprehensive guide brings together knowledge, detailed configuration options, and real-world case studies for successfully deploying Cisco HyperFlex technologies in environments of all types.

Three expert authors present easy-to-understand overviews of key Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) concepts, show how HyperFlex technologies apply them, and present detailed reference examples with topologies, configurations, and verifications for each major feature. Drawing on extensive experience helping Cisco customers adopt HyperFlex, they present best practices for optimizing design, streamlining deployment, avoiding pitfalls, and maximizing value.

This guide will be indispensable to every IT and network professional, manager, or consultant involved in planning, deploying, or operating Cisco HyperFlex or evaluating any HCI solution. Reflecting current trends in HCI deployment, it will be valuable in both small-scale environments and large-scale data centers.

• Explore how and why data centers have evolved from traditional to converged and hyperconverged infrastructure
• Review the essentials of HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure connectivity
• Understand HyperFlex Data Platform architecture, components, topologies, and supported hardware
• Compare HyperFlex standard, stretch, and edge clusters, and understand their respective roles
• Install and deploy each type of Cisco HyperFlex cluster, including preparation, prerequisites, and components
• Manage HyperFlex via HyperFlex Connect: HX storage cluster status, components, encryption, replication, and more
• Maintain HyperFlex: clustering, virtual machine management, native snapshots, ReadyClones, and more
• Scale HyperFlex clusters, replace hardware, and upgrade software
• Configure and manage advanced HyperFlex Data Platform disaster recovery features
• Integrate supported third-party data protection solutions, including Veeam Availability Suite, Cohesity, and Commvault
• Utilize the cloud-based Cisco Intersight platform to deploy HyperFlexAnywhere, including edge and standard clusters

✦ Table of Contents

About This eBook
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Authors
About the Technical Reviewers
Dedications
Acknowledgments
Contents at a Glance
Reader Services
Contents
Command Syntax Conventions
Preface
Who Should Read This Book?
How This Book Is Organized
Introduction
Introduction to HCI
Cisco’s HCI Solution: HyperFlex Overview
Deployment Options of Cisco HyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlex Advantages
Chapter 1. Overview of Data Center Products
Cisco Unified Computing System
Cisco Intersight Cloud-Based Management (SaaS Solution)
HyperFlex Data Platform
Cisco MDS 9000 Multilayer Director SAN Switches
Network Switches
Hypervisors
Summary
Chapter 2. HyperFlex Architecture
HyperFlex Architecture Components
HyperFlex HX-Series Node Overview
Physical Installation
Physical Topology
Summary
Chapter 3. Installing HyperFlex
Installation Prerequisites
Installing Cisco HyperFlex System Servers
Installing HyperFlex Edge/Robo Cluster (ESXi, 3 Node)
Installing a HyperFlex Stretch Cluster (ESXi)
Summary
Chapter 4. Managing HyperFlex
Logging In to HyperFlex Connect
Replication
Encryption
Summary
Chapter 5. Maintaining HyperFlex
HyperFlex Licensing
Virtual Machine Management
Scaling HyperFlex Clusters
Hardware (Disk) Replacement
Upgrading HyperFlex Software
Summary
Chapter 6. Advanced Features
Data Protection
Replication Overview
Replication Networking Overview
Replication Pair Overview
Disaster Recovery Overview
HyperFlex Backup
Cohesity
Commvault
Summary
Chapter 7. Deploying HyperFlex Anywhere with Cisco Intersight
Cloud-Based Management
Cisco HyperFlex Edge Cluster Deployment
Standard UCSM Managed HyperFlex Cluster Deployment
Summary
Index
Code Snippets