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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 VxRail cluster networking

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Prepare switches for VxRail cluster networking

  • The tasks to configure the switches to support VxRail cluster networking are basically the same when preparing to deploy the management domain or any VI workload domain.

    1. Configure the VLAN for the VxRail external management network. Management access to ESXi on the VxRail nodes will be provided by this network. A unique VLAN for each VxRail external management network is considered a best practice.
    2. Ensure routing is configured between the management network on the Cloud Foundation on VxRail management domain and the VxRail external management network
    3. If vSAN will serve as the primary storage for the VxRail cluster, configure a unique VLAN for this network.
    4. Configure the VLAN for the vMotion network
    5. Configure the VLAN for node discovery purposes

    For the internal VxRail management network that is used for node discovery, the default VLAN configured in the factory on each node is 3939.

    If this VLAN is common across nodes for multiple VxRail clusters, then each VxRail Manager instance can discover all the nodes

    To restrict node discovery only to the nodes to be used form a single cluster, then configure a unique VLAN on the switches

    The default VLAN of 3939 configured in the factory on each node must also be updated if a unique VLAN for this cluster is configured on the switches

    1. For the internal VxRail management network that is used for node discovery, the default VLAN configured in the factory on each node is 3939.