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Dell VxRail Network Planning Guide
Introduction Planning Your Data Center Network for VxRail VxRail Cluster Types VxRail Feature-Driven Decision Points VxRail Hardware and Switch Selection Decision Points Prepare Data Center for VxRail Implementation Planning the VxRail Cluster Implementation Planning vSAN Witness Networking Planning VxRail Satellite Nodes Networking Configure the Network for VxRail Preparing to Build the VxRail Cluster VxRail Network Considerations After Implementation Appendixes
Appendixes
Appendix A: VxRail Network Configuration Table
Appendix B: VxRail Passwords
Appendix C: VxRail Cluster Setup Checklist
Appendix D: VxRail Open Ports Requirements
Appendix E: Virtual Distributed Switch Port Group Default Settings
Appendix F: Physical Network Switch Examples

Appendix A: VxRail Network Configuration Table

Appendix A: VxRail Network Configuration Table

  • 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

     

    4

    vSAN VLAN

     

    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

     

    17

    IP address

     

    18

    ESXi Hostnames

    VxRail auto-assign method

    Prefix

    19

    Separator

    20

    Iterator

    21

    Offset

    22

    Suffix

    23

    Customer-managed 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-managed 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-managed switch names

    Name of first Virtual Distributed Switch

    42

    Name of second Virtual Distributed Switch

    43

    Customer-managed VDS port groups

    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-managed method

    vMotion IP Address 1

    51

    vMotion IP Address 2

    52

    vMotion IP Address 3

    53

    vMotion IP Address 4

    54

    Subnet mask

     

    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-managed method

    vSAN IP Address 1

    59

    vSAN IP Address 2

    60

    vSAN IP Address 3

    61

    vSAN IP Address 4

    62

    Subnet mask

     

    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