Deployment Guide—Dell EMC PowerFlex with Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis

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  Document purpose
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  Audience
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  Terminology

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  MX7000 network configuration
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  PowerFlex two-layer configuration with an MX7000 logical network
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  Hardware overview
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  Logical configuration overview

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  Deployment considerations

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  Configuring OOB management
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  Configuring northbound customer switches

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  Introduction
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  Deploying the PowerFlex MX7000 chassis
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  Configuring OpenManage Enterprise – Modular Edition
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  Managing the OpenManage Enterprise – Modular Edition firmware
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  Configuring the management, production, and uplink network
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  Configuring the storage uplink network
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  Configuring MX740c sleds

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  Introduction
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  Installing and configuring VMware ESXi
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  Installing vCSA
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  Adding ESXi host to the VMware vCenter
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  Creating the Front-End DVSwitch
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  Creating the FE_dvSwitch distributed port groups
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  Creating the Back-End DVSwitch
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  Creating the BE_dvswitch distributed port groups
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  Create LAG on the new DVSwitches
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  Modifying Failover Order for BE_dvSwitch
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  Migrating Interfaces to BE_dvswitch
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  Modifying the failover order for the FE_dvSwitch
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  Adding first uplink to FE_dvswitch
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  Migrating vCenter to FE_dvswitch
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  Migrating the second uplink and VMkernel port
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  Creating the Out of Band dvswitch
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  Creating the oob_dvswitch distributed port group
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  Adding a host to oob_dvswitch
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  Deleting the Standard Switch (vSwitch0)

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  Installing a Windows jump server

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  Introduction
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  Installing and configuring VMware ESXi
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  Adding an ESXi host to the VMware vCenter
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  Renaming the local operating system datastore
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  Configuring compute virtual networking

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  Introduction
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  Installing PowerFlex Manager
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  Deploying PowerFlex Manager
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  Setting up PowerFlex Manager
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  Configuring PowerFlex Manager
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  Discovering resources
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  Defining networks in PowerFlex Manager
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  Deploying the PowerFlex Presentation UI
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  Deploying the PowerFlex Gateway
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  Deploying PowerFlex storage-only node service

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  Installing the SDC on an ESXi server

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  Validated components tables

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  References