You can configure the ports on the optional PCIe adapter cards to support VxRail network traffic. Unless you are deploying the VxRail cluster to a customer-supplied virtual-distributed switch, this configuration is only supported as a post-deployment activity.
Figure 62. VxRail node with NDC/OCP ports and ports from optional PCIe adapter card
Network redundancy across NDC/OCP and PCIe Ethernet ports can be enabled by reconfiguring the VxRail networks and migrating selected VxRail network traffic from the original NDC/OCP-based ports over to PCIe-based ports.
Table 3. The following table describes the supported starting and ending network reconfigurations.
Starting configuration | Ending configuration |
2 NDC/OCP ports | 1 NDC/OCP port and 1 PCIe port |
2 NDC/OCP Ports | 2 NDC/OCP ports and 2 PCIe ports |
4 NDC/OCP Ports | 2 NDC/OCP ports and 2 PCIe ports |
4 NDC/OCP Ports | 1 NDC/OCP port and 1 PCIe port |
The following rules apply for migrating VxRail networks from NDC/OCP-only ports to mixed NDC/OCP-PCIe ports:
Note: You must follow the official instructions and procedures from VMware and Dell for these operations.
The supported operations include:
The following operations are unsupported in versions earlier than VxRail 7.0.010:
Note: Performing any unsupported operations will impact the stability and operations of the VxRail cluster and may cause a failure in the VxRail cluster.