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Dell Networking SmartFabric Services with VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Topology Chapter 3 Deployment Planning Chapter 4 Prepare for VCF Management Domain Deployment Chapter 5 Deploy the VCF Management Domain Chapter 6 Deploy the NSX Edge Cluster for the Management Domain Chapter 7 Prepare for VCF Workload Domain Deployment Chapter 8 Deploy the VCF Workload Domain Chapter 9 Deploy the NSX Edge Cluster for the Workload Domain CLI Validation Validated Components
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Validated components

  • The following tables include the hardware, software, and firmware used to configure and validate the examples in this guide.

    Switches and operating systems

    Table 10.  Switches and operating systems

    Qty

    Item

    Operating system version

    4

    Dell PowerSwitch S5248F-ON leaf switches

    10.5.4.5.201

    2

    Dell PowerSwitch S5232F-ON spine switches

    10.5.4.5.201

    2

    Dell PowerSwitch N3248TE-ON OOB management switches

    10.5.4.5.201

    VxRail nodes

    Seven VxRail E560F nodes were used to validate the examples in this guide. The nodes were each configured per the table below.

    Table 11.  VxRail E560F node components

    Qty per node

    Item

    Firmware version

    2

    Intel Xeon Silver 4216 CPU @ 2.10 GHz, 16 cores

     

    4

    32 GB DDR4 DIMMs (128 GB total)

     

    1

    1788.5 GB SATA SSD

     

    1

    745.21 GB SAS SSD

     

    2

    223.57 GB SATA SSD

     

    1

    Dell HBA330 Mini Storage Controller

    16.17.01.00

    1

    Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS-S1) Controller

    2.5.13.3024

    1

    Mellanox ConnectX-4 LX rNDC – 2x25GbE SFP28 ports

    14.32.20.04

    -

    BIOS

    2.14.2

    -

    CPLD

    1.0.6

    -

    iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller

    5.10.30.201

    -

    Backplane Expander

    2.52

    VxRail appliance software

    Table 12.  VxRail appliance software

    Item

    Version

    VxRail

    7.0.400-27701512

    Includes:

    • ESXi 7.0.3-20328353 (7.0 Update 3g)
    • vCenter Server 7.0.3-20150588 (7.0 Update 3g)

    Note: The vCenter Server deployed with VxRail 7.0.400 in the table above is upgraded to 7.0.3-20395099 (7.0 Update 3h) before deployment of the workload domain as required by SDDC Manager. See VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5 on Dell VxRail Release Notes for more information.

    VMware Cloud Foundation software

    Table 13.  VCF software

    Item

    Version

    VMware Cloud Builder

    4.5.0.0-20612863

    Includes: NSX-T Data Center 3.2.1.2.0.20541212

    OMNI software

    Note: The SFS UI may be used instead of OMNI for the deployment steps in this guide.

    Table 14.  OMNI software

     Item

    Version

    OMNI

    3.2.28