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Deployment Guide—Dell EMC PowerFlex with Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis
Introduction MX7000 Build Overview Physical Deployment Configuring the switches Configuring the PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis Configuring the PowerFlex R640 Management Node Deploying a Jump Server Configuring the MX740c ESXi Compute Sleds Deploying PowerFlex Two-Layer
Introduction
Installing PowerFlex Manager
Deploying PowerFlex Manager
Setting up PowerFlex Manager
Configuring PowerFlex Manager
Discovering resources
Defining networks in PowerFlex Manager
Deploying the PowerFlex Presentation UI
Deploying the PowerFlex Gateway
Deploying PowerFlex storage-only node service
Deploy SDC on ESXi Servers Validated Components Technical Resources

Defining networks in PowerFlex Manager

Defining networks in PowerFlex Manager

  • The networks defined in PowerFlex Manager are used in templates to specify the networks or VLANs that are configured on nodes and switches for services. 

    1. Log in to the PowerFlex Manager UI using your credentials.
    2. Click Settings > + Network.
    3. Click Define Networks to enter detailed information about the available networks in the environment. Each network to be used needs to be added.  

    The following table outlines the purpose of each network:

    Table 30.           Network purpose

    Network

    Purpose

    General purpose LAN

    Optional; used to access network resources for basic networking activities.

    Hypervisor management

    Used to identify the management network for a hypervisor or operating system deployed on a node.

    Hypervisor migration

    Used to manage the network that you want to use for live migration. Live migration allows you to move running VMs from one node of the failover cluster to a different node in the same cluster.

    Operating system installation

    Allows static or DHCP network for operating system imaging on nodes.

    Hardware management

    Used for OOB management of hardware infrastructure.

    PowerFlex data

    Used for traffic between PowerFlex data clients (SDC) and data servers (SDS). Used for all node types except for dedicated storage-only nodes.

    PowerFlex data (SDC traffic only)

    Used for traffic between SDC and SDS and between SDS and SDS. Used for cloning a dedicated storage template.

    PowerFlex data (SDS traffic only)

    Used for traffic between SDS and SDS. Used for cloning a dedicated storage template.

    PowerFlex management

    Used for PowerFlex management traffic.

    PowerFlex replication

    Used for PowerFlex replication traffic.