The Dell service representative uses a data collection workbook to capture the settings that are required to build the VxRail cluster. The workbook includes the following information:
Row | Topic | Category | Description |
1 | VxRail Networks | External Management VLAN | Untagged traffic is recommended on the Native VLAN. If you want the host to send only tagged frames, manually configure the VLAN on each ESXi™ host using DCUI and set tagging for your management VLAN on your switch before you deploy VxRail. |
2 | Internal Management VLAN | This network traffic should stay isolated on the top-of-rack switches. The default VLAN ID is 3939. | |
3 | vMotion VLAN |
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4 | vSAN VLAN |
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5 | Guest Networks VLAN | Network Name | |
6 | VLAN | ||
7 | vCenter Server Management VLAN | vCenter Server network on same VLAN as external management network by default. Can also be assigned a unique VLAN | |
8 | External Management Network Settings
| Subnet Mask | Subnet mask for VxRail External Management Network |
9 | Default Gateway | Default gateway for VxRail External Management Network | |
10 | vCenter Server Management Network | Subnet Mask | vCenter Server network on same subnet as external management network by default. Can optionally be assigned a new subnet mask. |
11 | Gateway | vCenter Server network on same subnet as external management network by default. Can optionally be assigned a new gateway. | |
12 | System | Global Settings | Time zone |
13 | NTP servers | ||
14 | DNS servers | ||
15 | Top Level Domain | ||
16 | VxRail Manager | Hostname |
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17 | IP Address |
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18 | ESXi Hostnames | VxRail auto-assign method | Prefix |
19 | Separator | ||
20 | Iterator | ||
21 | Offset | ||
22 | Suffix | ||
23 | Customer-supplied method | ESXi hostname 1 | |
24 | ESXi hostname 2 | ||
25 | ESXi hostname 3 | ||
26 | ESXi hostname 4 | ||
27 | ESXi IP Addresses | VxRail auto-assign method | Starting IP Address |
28 | Ending IP Address | ||
29 | Customer-supplied method | ESXi IP Address 1 | |
30 | ESXi IP Address 2 | ||
31 | ESXi IP Address 3 | ||
32 | ESXi IP Address 4 | ||
33 | vCenter | VxRail vCenter Server | vCenter Server Hostname |
34 | vCenter Server IP Address | ||
35 | vCenter Server Hostname (FQDN) | ||
36 | vCenter Server SSO Domain | ||
37 | Admin username/password or the newly created VxRail non-admin username and password | ||
38 | New VxRail management username and password | ||
39 | vCenter Data Center Name | ||
40 | vCenter Cluster Name | ||
41 | Virtual Distributed Switch | Customer-Supplied Switch Names | Name of first Virtual Distributed Switch |
42 | Name of second Virtual Distributed Switch | ||
43 | Customer-supplied VDS Portgroups | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail external management network | |
44 | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail vCenter Server network | ||
45 | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail internal management network | ||
46 | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail vMotion network | ||
47 | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail vSAN network | ||
48 | vMotion | VxRail auto-assign method | Starting address for IP pool |
49 | Ending address for IP pool | ||
50 | Customer-supplied method | vMotion IP Address 1 | |
51 | vMotion IP Address 2 | ||
52 | vMotion IP Address 3 | ||
53 | vMotion IP Address 4 | ||
54 | Subnet Mask |
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55 | Gateway | Default or vMotion stack to enable routing | |
56 | vSAN | VxRail auto-assign method | Starting address for IP pool |
57 | Ending address for IP pool | ||
58 | Customer-supplied method | vSAN IP Address 1 | |
59 | vSAN IP Address 2 | ||
60 | vSAN IP Address 3 | ||
61 | vSAN IP Address 4 | ||
62 | Subnet Mask |
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63 | Gateway | Default or Custom for routable network | |
64 | Logging | Log Insight | vRealize Log Insight hostname |
65 | vRealize Log Insight IP address | ||
66 | Syslog Server | Syslog server IP address | |
67 | Witness Site | Management IP Address | Witness management network IP address |
68 | vSAN IP Address | Witness vSAN network IP address | |
69 | Witness Traffic Separation | WTS VLAN | Optional to enable Witness traffic separation on stretched cluster or 2-Node Cluster |
70 | 2-Node Cluster | Node 1 WTS IP address | Must be routable to Witness |
71 | Node 2 WTS IP address | Must be routable to Witness | |
72 | Satellite Nodes | Node 1 | ESXi hostname |
73 | Management IP address | ||
74 | Node 2 | ESXi hostname | |
75 | Management IP address | ||
76 | Node 3 | ESXi hostname | |
77 | Management IP address |