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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 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 E: VMware VDS port group default settings
Default standard settings
Default teaming and failover policy
Default network I-O control (NIOC)
Default failover order policy
Appendix F: Physical Network Switch Examples

Default failover order policy

Default failover order policy

  • VxRail supports customizing the assignment of uplinks to VxRail networks, and also supports setting either an active/active or active/standby failover policy for the VxRail network port groups.

    The following tables contain the default active/standby settings that are applied for the four predefined network traffic types that are required for initialization: Management, VxRail Management, VMware vCenter Server Network, VMware vSphere vMotion, and vSAN.

    Table 52. 4 x 10 GbE traffic configuration
    Traffic type Uplink1 VMNIC0 Uplink2 VMNIC1 Uplink3 VMNIC2 Uplink4 VMNIC3
    Management Standby Active Unused Unused
    VMware vSphere vMotion Unused Unused Standby Active
    VMware vSAN Unused Unused Active Standby
    VMware vCenter Server Network Active Standby Unused Unused
    VxRail Management Standby Active Unused Unused
    Table 53. 2 x 10 GbE or 2 x 25 GbE traffic configuration
    Traffic type Uplink1 VMNIC0 Uplink2 VMNIC1 Uplink3 No VMNIC Uplink4 No VMNIC
    Management Active Standby Unused Unused
    VMware vSphere vMotion Active Standby Unused Unused
    VMware vSAN Standby Active Unused Unused
    VMware vCenter Server Network Active Standby Unused Unused
    VxRail Management Active Standby Unused Unused
    Table 54. 2 x 10 GbE or 2 x 25 GbE traffic configuration
    Traffic type Uplink1 VMNIC0 Uplink2 VMNIC1 Uplink3 VMNIC2 Uplink4 VMNIC3
    Management Active Unused Standby Unused
    VMware vSphere vMotion Unused Standby Unused Active
    VMware vSAN Unused Active Unused Standby
    VMware vCenter Server Network Standby Unused Active Unused
    VxRail Management Active Unused Standby Unused