A laptop computer or jump box with a web browser for the VxRail user interface is required. It is either directly plugged into a leaf switch or able to logically reach the VxRail External Management VLAN from elsewhere on the network.
By default, the initial VxRail Manager IP address is 192.168.10.200/24. After initial configuration, the address changes to its new address on the External Management network. The new VxRail Manager address used in this guide is 172.18.11.72/24 per the planning data in Table 3.
During installation, the laptop or jump box must be able to reach both the initial and new VxRail Manager addresses, so two addresses are configured on the network adapter, one for each network.
The IP addresses configured on the laptop computer or jump box in this example are as follows:
- 192.168.10.1/24, to communicate with the initial VxRail Manager address, 192.168.10.200/24
- 172.18.11.201/24, to communicate with the new VxRail Manager address, 172.18.11.72/24
If a laptop computer is used, the connections appear, as shown in the figure below.
If a PowerEdge server is used as a jump box, make the connections, as shown in the following figure. Access the jump box’s operating system from a workstation using the iDRAC virtual console.
In a web browser on the laptop computer or jump box, connect to https://192.168.10.200 and deploy VxRail using the planning data in Table 3.