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 postdeployment activity.
Figure 58. VxRail node with NDC-OCP ports and ports from optional PCIe adapter card
You can enable network redundancy across NDC-OCP and PCIe Ethernet ports by reconfiguring the VxRail networks and migrating selected VxRail network traffic from the original NDC-OCP-based ports to PCIe-based ports. The following table describes the supported starting and ending network reconfigurations.
Table 8. Supported starting and ending network reconfigurations
Starting configuration | Ending configuration |
Two NDC-OCP ports | One NDC-OCP port and 1 PCIe port |
Two NDC-OCP Ports | Two NDC-OCP ports and 2 PCIe ports |
Four NDC-OCP Ports | Two NDC-OCP ports and 2 PCIe ports |
Four NDC-OCP Ports | One NDC-OCP port and 1 PCIe port |
The following rules apply for migrating VxRail networks from NDC-OCP-only ports to mixed NDC-OCP, and PCIe ports:
Note: Follow the official instructions and procedures from VMware and Dell Technologies 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 impacts the stability and operations of the VxRail cluster, and may cause a failure in the VxRail cluster.