Before following the procedure to onboard the Isilon nodes, ensure that the following tasks have been completed:
- The networking fabric is built out using SFS. The switches in the multirack topology are in SmartFabric mode.
- The fabric connects to the external switches using L2 uplinks. The appropriate configuration has been completed on the external switches.
- ESXi nodes 1 and 2 are onboarded to the fabric.
- vCenter and OMNI are deployed on ESXi node 1.
- The ESXi nodes are added to a cluster in vCenter, as shown in the following figure:
- The associated networks are created. VLAN 1801 is used for Isilon storage traffic. See Configure General Purpose Networks Using OMNIfor more information.
- Ports 1/1/1 through 1/1/3 on Leaf1A and Leaf1B are broken out to 10 GbE. See the breakout example in Breakout Interface.
S5248F-Leaf2A# show interface status -------------------------------------------------------------------- Port Description Status Speed Duplex Mode Vlan Tagged-Vlans -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eth 1/1/17:1 up 10G full A - Eth 1/1/18:1 up 10G full A - Eth 1/1/19:1 up 10G full A - Eth 1/1/20:1 up 10G full A - ***** OUTPUT TRUNCATED *****
- The vDS configuration in vCenter has the following port groups:
Table 23. vDS port groups VLAN ID Description 1811 External management 1812 vMotion 1814 VM Network A 1815 VM Network B 1801 Isilon storage - OOB management
The vDS configuration topology view is shown in the following figure:
Isilon storage is configured. See Isilon Configuration for more information.