Table 9. VxRail network configuration
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. 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 |
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4 | vSAN VLAN |
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5 | Guest networks VLAN | Network Name | |
6 | VLAN | ||
7 | vCenter Server management VLAN | The vCenter Server network is on same VLAN as the external management network by default. It 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 | The vCenter Server network is on same VLAN as the external management network by default. It can optionally be assigned a new subnet mask. |
11 | Gateway | The vCenter Server network is on same VLAN as the external management network by default. It 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 |
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17 | IP address |
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18 | ESXi hostnames | VxRail auto-assign method | Prefix |
19 | Separator | ||
20 | Iterator | ||
21 | Offset | ||
22 | Suffix | ||
23 | Customer-supplied method | ESXi hostname 1 | |
24 | ESXi hostname 2 | ||
25 | ESXi hostname 3 | ||
26 | ESXi hostname 4 | ||
27 | ESXi IP addresses | VxRail vCenter Server | Starting IP Address |
28 | Ending IP Address | ||
29 | Customer-supplied 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 | Platform Services Controller Hostname (if applicable) | ||
36 | Platform Services Controller IP address (if applicable) | ||
37 | Customer-supplied vCenter Server | Platform Services Controller Hostname (FQDN) Leave blank if PSC is embedded in customer-supplied vCenter Server. | |
38 | vCenter Server Hostname (FQDN) | ||
39 | vCenter Server SSO Domain | ||
40 | Admin username and password or the newly created VxRail nonadmin username and password | ||
41 | New VxRail management username and password | ||
42 | vCenter Data Center Name | ||
43 | vCenter Cluster Name | ||
44 | Virtual distributed switch | Customer-supplied switch names | Name of first Virtual Distributed Switch |
45 | Name of second Virtual Distributed Switch | ||
46 | Customer-supplied VDS port groups | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail external management network | |
47 | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail vCenter Server network | ||
48 | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail internal management network | ||
49 | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail vMotion network | ||
50 | Name of VDS port group supporting VxRail vSAN network | ||
51 | vMotion | VxRail auto-assign method | Starting address for IP pool |
52 | Ending address for IP pool | ||
53 | Customer-supplied method | vMotion IP Address 1 | |
54 | vMotion IP Address 2 | ||
55 | vMotion IP Address 3 | ||
56 | vMotion IP Address 4 | ||
57 | Subnet mask |
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58 | Gateway | Default or vMotion stack to enable routing | |
59 | vSAN | VxRail auto-assign method | Starting address for IP pool |
60 | Ending address for IP pool | ||
61 | Customer-supplied method | vSAN IP Address 1 | |
62 | vSAN IP Address 2 | ||
63 | vSAN IP Address 3 | ||
64 | vSAN IP Address 4 | ||
65 | Subnet mask |
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66 | Gateway | Default or Custom for routable network | |
67 | Logging | Log Insight | vRealize Log Insight hostname |
68 | vRealize Log Insight IP address | ||
69 | Syslog server | Syslog server IP address | |
70 | SmartFabric | Switch out-of-band management | Out-of-band management IP address for switch 1 |
71 | Out-of-band management IP address for switch 2 | ||
72 | Dell OMNI plug-in | IP address | |
73 | Subnet Mask | ||
74 | Gateway | ||
75 | Witness site | Management IP address | Witness management network IP address |
76 | vSAN IP address | Witness vSAN network IP address | |
77 | Witness traffic separation | WTS VLAN | Optional to enable Witness traffic separation on stretched cluster or 2-Node Cluster |
78 | 2-Node cluster | Node 1 WTS IP address | Must be routable to Witness |
79 | Node 2 WTS IP address | Must be routable to Witness | |
80 | Satellite Nodes | Node 1 | ESXi hostname |
81 | Management IP address | ||
82 | Node 2 | ESXi hostname | |
83 | Management IP address | ||
84 | Node 3 | ESXi hostname | |
85 | Management IP address |