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Architecture Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail: VCF 5.x on VxRail 8.x
Executive Summary Architecture Overview Workload Domain Architecture VxRail Virtual Network Architecture Network Virtualization NSX WLD Design Enabling VCF with Tanzu Features on Workload Domains Physical Network Design Considerations Storage Options
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FC storage
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FC storage

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FC storage

  • Introduction

    VCF 5.0 supports the ability to deploy a VI WLD with external storage as primary storage with no VxRail managed vSAN. This feature allows support for a VxRail dynamic node cluster with three nodes or more to be added to a VI WLD. These nodes contain no internal storage disks normally required for vSAN.

    The following requirements must be met before deploying a VxRail dynamic node cluster with FC storage as primary storage.

    Supported storage arrays:

    • PowerStore
    • PowerMax
    • Unity XT

    Supported FC HBAs:

    • Emulex LPE 35002 Dual Port 32 Gb HBA
    • Emulex LPE 31002 Dual Port 16 Gb HBA
    • QLogic 2772 Dual Port 32 Gb HBA
    • QLogic 2692 Dual Port 16 Gb HBA

    Storage configuration required:

    • Zoning of the VxRail nodes to the storage system
    • Creation and masking of the LUN to the VxRail nodes
    • 900 GB of free space on the volume
    • Formatting the LUN with a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)

    If multiple datastores are discovered during VxRail Day 1 workflow, the largest one will be selected as the primary datastore for the VxRail systems.

    If multiple datastores are discovered of the same size, a random one will be selected during VxRail Day 1 workflow.