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Planning Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x 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
Introduction
Data center rack space requirements
Data center networking
Network switch selection
Switch port capacity
Switch port type
Jumbo frames
Multicast
Border Gateway Protocol
Node placement for multi-rack deployments
Hardware VTEP for multi-rack deployments
Network services
Storage Services
Cloud Foundation on VxRail High-Level Design Decisions Cloud Foundation on VxRail Workload Planning Cloud Foundation on VxRail Licensing 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 Prepare for NSX Edge Gateway Services Prepare for Cloud Foundation Application Virtual Network Cloud Foundation On VxRail Housekeeping Tasks Appendixes

Jumbo frames

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Jumbo frames

  • NSX depends on extending the standard Ethernet frame beyond the default 1500 bytes to support the tunneling of virtual machine traffic over the physical network in Cloud Foundation on VxRail. NSX depends on the GENEVE (GEneric NEtwork Virtualization) standard, which requires an MTU size of 1600 or higher to support the encapsulation of virtual machine traffic and provide the additional required header space. The physical network supporting Cloud Foundation on VxRail must support the ability to increase the MTU size to support tunneling.

    Figure 13.    NSX extended frames