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Architecture Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail: VCF 4.5 on VxRail 7.0
Executive Summary Architecture Overview Workload Domain Architecture VxRail Virtual Network Architecture Network Virtualization NSX-T WLD Design Enabling VCF with Tanzu Features on Workload Domains Physical Network Design Considerations Storage Options
Introduction
vSAN
vSAN HCI Mesh
FC Storage
Multi-site Design Considerations Operations Management Architecture Life Cycle Management Cloud Management Architecture

FC Storage

FC Storage

  • Introduction

    VCF 4.3.1 introduced the ability to deploy a VI WLD with external storage as primary storage with no VxRail managed vSAN. This feature allows support for a VxRail dynamic node cluster with three nodes or more to be added to a VI WLD. These nodes contain no internal storage disks normally required for vSAN.

    The following requirements must be met before deploying a VxRail dynamic node cluster with FC storage as primary storage.

    Supported storage arrays:

    • PowerStore
    • PowerMax
    • Unity XT

    Supported FC HBAs:

    • Emulex LPE 35002 Dual Port 32 Gb HBA
    • Emulex LPE 31002 Dual Port 16 Gb HBA
    • QLogic 2772 Dual Port 32 Gb HBA
    • QLogic 2692 Dual Port 16 Gb HBA

    Storage configuration required:

    • Zoning of the VxRail nodes to the storage system
    • Creation and masking of the LUN to the VxRail nodes
    • 900 GB of free space on the volume
    • Formatting the LUN with a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)

    If multiple datastores are discovered during VxRail Day 1 workflow, the largest one will be selected as the primary datastore for the VxRail systems.

    If multiple datastores are discovered with the same size, a random one will be select during VxRail Day 1 workflow.

    Note: VCF 4.4 and later versions require workflow optimization for 14/15G VI WLD deployments.