Specification

Table of contents
3 Dell EMC Best Practices for Running VMware ESXi 6.5 or Later Clusters on XC Series Appliances and XC Core
Systems | A03
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Preface ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Boot devices ................................................................................................................................................................. 5
1.1 Essential information about the boot devices ..................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Run virtual machines on the Nutanix Distributed File System only .................................................................... 5
2 Configuring VMware vSphere vCenter Server ............................................................................................................. 7
2.1 vSphere Server Registration under Prism .......................................................................................................... 7
2.2 VMware DRS settings ........................................................................................................................................ 7
2.2.1 Configuring DRS ................................................................................................................................................. 8
2.3 Configuring VMware HA ..................................................................................................................................... 9
2.4 Enabling VMware EVC settings ........................................................................................................................ 11
3 Applying updates in a VMware vSphere environment ............................................................................................... 12
3.1 VMware Update Manager ................................................................................................................................. 12
3.2 One-Click Upgrade process ............................................................................................................................. 12
3.2.1 Performing the upgrade: ................................................................................................................................... 13
4 Deployment best practices ......................................................................................................................................... 16
4.1 Virtual disk provisioning .................................................................................................................................... 16
4.2 SYSLOG ........................................................................................................................................................... 16
5 Additional resources and references .......................................................................................................................... 17
5.1 Referenced or recommended Dell EMC publications ...................................................................................... 17
5.2 Referenced or recommended Nutanix publications ......................................................................................... 17