Ping between VMs on rack server and compute sled
In this scenario, vCenter is deployed on the Dell PowerEdge R640 rack server. The VMs are deployed on both the PowerEdge R640 rack server, and the Dell PowerEdge MX740c compute sleds.
The network is established on tagged VLANs 1611 through 1616 which are used for ESXi management, vMotion, vSAN, and VM networks. The VMware NSX-T Data Center also uses VLANs 1617 and 1649.
After the successful installation of the guest operating system on the VM, assign the IP from the private IP network to each host VM in the corresponding subnet. The topology can be validated end-to-end by pinging from one VM on the PowerEdge MX740c to one VM on the PowerEdge R640 server.
The following figure shows the VM on the R640_Host-3 server with an assigned IP of 10.10.10.13, and the VM on the MX740c_Host-1 with an assigned IP of 10.10.10.11.
Ping between VMs on two Dell PowerEdge MX740c compute sleds
To validate the internal MX chassis scenario, a ping is sent from a VM on the MX740c compute sled to another VM on a different MX740c compute sled. In this scenario, the chassis are in the MCM group. The assigned IPs on the VMs that are deployed on the MX740c compute sleds are 10.10.10.11 and 10.10.10.12.
The following image shows the ping connectivity.