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Planning Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on VxRail
Executive summary VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail Requirements and Use Cases VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail workload domain planning Data center and network requirements Cloud Foundation on VxRail high-level design decisions Cloud Foundation on VxRail Workload Planning Cloud Foundation on VxRail physical network planning Cloud Foundation on VxRail physical network preparation VxRail Cluster deployment preparation Prepare for VMware Cloud Foundation Management VI Workload Domain Prepare for Cloud Foundation VI workload domain
Introduction
Cloud Foundation workload domain task outline
Prepare switches for NSX host overlay network
Prepare switches for VxRail cluster networking
Capture settings for VI workload domain
Prepare for vSphere for Tanzu workload domain
Prepare for multi-region with NSX Federation
Prepare for NSX edge gateway services Prepare for Cloud Foundation Application Virtual Network Cloud Foundation on VxRail housekeeping tasks Appendix A: Cloud Foundation on VxRail checklist Appendix B: Cloud Foundation on VxRail footprints for sizing Appendix C: Cloud Foundation on VxRail Networks Appendix D: VxRail network configuration Appendix E: Cloud Builder and management VI workload configuration Appendix F: VI workload domain configuration settings Appendix G: Edge gateway configuration Appendix H: Application virtual network configuration Appendix I: Sample switch configuration settings References

Prepare switches for NSX host overlay network

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Prepare switches for NSX host overlay network

  • Each VI workload domain requires at least one VLAN for the NSX host overlay network. The VLAN drives the Transport Zone selection the VI workload domain can be a member of.

    • Best practice is to configure a new VLAN for each VI workload domain to support the NSX host overlay network.
    • Applying the same VLAN to each VxRail cluster added to the VI workload domain ensures that all VxRail nodes are members of the host overlay network.
    • Follow these tasks for a new VLAN for the NSX host overlay network:

    Configure the VLAN on the adjacent leaf switches providing connectivity to the VxRail nodes.

    Add the VLAN to each trunked port on the adjacent leaf switches providing connectivity to the VxRail nodes, specifically to the switch ports supporting NSX network traffic.

    • If using DHCP to supply IP addresses for the host overlay network, ensure connectivity to a DHCP server supplying the IP addresses.