Both Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) site-to-site connectivity are supported for VxRail stretched clusters.

Configurations with two nodes plus a witness and four nodes plus a witness are supported cluster sizes for stretched clusters, providing fault tolerance across sites.

The Pre-deployment Checklist from the VxRail Configuration Portal is used to validate site readiness by ensuring all necessary prerequisites and environment conditions are met before deployment.

The PowerStore 5200T connected via NVMe/TCP supports integration with a VxRail-managed vCenter on the local cluster, enabling optimized storage performance and management within the VxRail ecosystem.

VxRail Manager is always present on a VxRail cluster as the core management component that handles cluster lifecycle, updates, and monitoring.

For erasure coding with a Failure to Tolerate (FTT) of 2 in a vSAN ESA cluster, a minimum of 5 nodes is required to provide the necessary redundancy and data protection.

Live Optics is the tool designed to gather detailed application and virtual environment workload data from existing environments to aid in sizing and planning VxRail deployments.

VD-4510 with 3 NVMe SSDs and 25 GbE networking is a valid ESA node configuration optimized for performance with NVMe storage and higher bandwidth.

E660N with 3 NVMe SSDs and 10 GbE networking also qualifies as a valid ESA node configuration balancing NVMe storage with 10 GbE network connectivity.