Information provided in the VxRail network configuration table is used during VxRail deployment. The values used for this deployment example are shown in the right column. The VLANs and IP addresses used are based on the information from the VLAN IDs and IP addresses table.
Configuration step | Section | Category | Description | Values used |
1 | VxRail | Management VLAN ID | The recommended is untagged traffic on the Native VLAN. If you want the host to send only tagged frames, manually configure the VLAN on each VxRail node, and set tagging for your management VLAN on your switch before you deploy VxRail. | 01 |
2 | VxRail initial IP | If you cannot reach the default address, 192.168.10.200/24, set an alternate IP address | 192.168.10.200 | |
3 | System | Global settings | Time zone | |
4 | NTP servers | 172.18.11.50 | ||
5 | DNS servers | 172.18.11.51 | ||
6 | Proxy settings | IP address and port | ||
7 | Username and password | |||
8 | Management | ESXi hostnames and IP addresses | ESXi hostname prefix | vxrail |
9 | Separator | None | ||
10 | Iterator | Num 0x | ||
11 | Offset | 01 | ||
12 | Suffix | none | ||
13 | Domain | dell.lab | ||
14 | ESXi starting address for IP pool | 172.18.11.101 | ||
15 | ESXi ending address for IP pool | 172.18.11.104 | ||
16 | vCenter Server |
vCenter Server hostname | vcenter01 | |
17 | vCenter Server IP address | 172.18.11.62 | ||
18 | Platform Services Controller hostname | psc01 | ||
19 | Platform Services Controller IP address | 172.18.11.63 | ||
20 | Customer supplied vCenter Server |
Customer Supplied Platform Services Controller (PSC) Hostname (FQDN) Leave blank if PSC is VxRail PSC | ||
21 | Customer Supplied vCenter Server hostname (FQDN) | |||
22 | Customer Supplied vCenter Server SSO domain | |||
23 | Admin username and password, or the newly created VxRail non-admin username and password | |||
24 | New VxRail management username and password | |||
25 | Customer Supplied data center name | |||
26 | New cluster name | |||
27 | VxRail Manager | VxRail hostname | vxmgr01 | |
28 | VxRail IP address | 172.18.11.72 | ||
29 | Networking | Subnet mask | 255.255.255.0 | |
30 | Gateway | 172.18.11.254 | ||
31 | Passwords | ESXi root passwords. Can be different for each host starting with Release 4.0.100. | root_password | |
32 | VxRail Manager and VxRail vCenter Server “administrator@vsphere.local” | administrator_password | ||
33 | vMotion | Starting address for IP pool | 172.18.12.101 | |
34 | Ending address for IP pool | 172.18.12.104 | ||
35 | Subnet mask | 255.255.255.0 | ||
36 | VLAN ID | 1812 | ||
37 | vSAN | Starting address for IP pool | 172.18.13.101 | |
38 | Ending address for IP pool | 172.18.13.104 | ||
39 | Subnet mask | 255.255.255.0 | ||
40 | VLAN ID | 1813 | ||
41 | VM Networks | ...(unlimited number) |
VM Network name and VLAN ID | VM_Network_A, 1814 |
42 | VM Network name and VLAN ID | VM_Network_B, 1815 | ||
43 | Solutions | Logging |
vRealize Log Insight hostname | vxinsight |
44 | vRealize Log Insight IP address | 172.18.11.73 | ||
45 | Syslog server (instead of Log Insight) |
This deployment uses four VxRail nodes. However, host IP address pools are configured for the Management, vMotion, and vSAN VLANs using addresses in the .101 through .104 range in the table above.