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Dell VxRail Network Planning Guide
Introduction Plan the VxRail network VxRail Cluster Types VxRail feature-driven decision points VxRail hardware and switch selection decision points Prepare the data center to implement VxRail Plan the VxRail cluster implementation
Plan the VxRail cluster implementation
Decide on VxRail single point of management
Decide on VxRail network traffic segmentation
Decide on teaming and failover policies for VxRail networks
Plan the VxRail logical network
IP address considerations for VxRail networks VLAN considerations for VxRail networks
Plan network settings for VxRail management components
Plan network settings for VMware vCenter Server management network
Identify IP addresses for VxRail management components
Select hostnames for VxRail management components
Select a top-level domain Select a hostname for VxRail Manager Select the ESXi hostnames Select a hostname for the VxRail-managed VMware vCenter Server
Identify external applications and settings for VxRail
Set the DNS for VxRail management components
Prepare the customer-managed VMware vCenter Server
Prepare a customer-managed virtual-distributed switch
Prepare LAG on a customer-managed virtual-distributed switch
Reserve IP addresses for VxRail-managed VMware vSphere vMotion network
Reserve IP addresses for VxRail vSAN network
Decide on VxRail logging solution
Assign passwords for VxRail management
Planning vSAN Witness Networking Planning VxRail Satellite Nodes Networking Configure the Network for VxRail Prepare to build the VxRail cluster VxRail network considerations after implementation Appendix A: VxRail Network Configuration Table Appendix B: VxRail Passwords Appendix C: VxRail cluster setup checklist Appendix D: VxRail Open Ports Requirements Appendix E: VMware VDS port group default settings Appendix F: Physical Network Switch Examples

Decide on VxRail logging solution

Decide on VxRail logging solution

  • Decide whether to use your own third-party syslog server, use the VMware vRealize Log Insight solution, or no logging solution.

    You can only select the VMware vRealize Log Insight option if:
    • You can deploy the VMware vCenter Server instance that included with the VxRail onto the VxRail cluster.
    • The VxRail cluster to be deployed is version 7.0.010 or earlier.
    • If the cluster is being deployed with a version greater than 7.0.010, VxRail will not deploy a VMware vRealize Log Insight virtual appliance onto the cluster during the initial build.
    • It is possible to deploy VMware vRealize Log Insight after the VxRail initial build operation is complete.

    If you choose the VMware vRealize Log Insight option, the IP address that is assigned to VMware vRealize Log Insight must be on the same subnet as the VxRail management network.

    Table 34. Hostname and IP address for VMware vRealize Log Insight
    Network configuration table Action
    Row 64 Enter the hostname for VMware vRealize Log Insight.
    Row 65 Enter the IP address for VMware vRealize Log Insight.

    If a syslog server is already deployed in your data center and you are going to use it as a logging solution, capture the IP address.

    Table 35. IP address of the syslog server
    Network configuration table Action
    Row 66 Enter the IP address of the syslog server.