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Deployment Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation on PowerEdge Servers and Unity Storage

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Compute Cluster Deployment
Prerequisites Installing ESXi on the compute hosts Configuring the ESXi management network on the compute cluster Configuring NFS resources in SDDC Manager Configuring NFS on Unity XT x80 Deploying the VI workload domain Creating VI workload domain datastores

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

  • To deploy the compute cluster, you need:

    • iDRAC IP addresses or FQDNs
    • iDRAC credentials
    • iDRAC Enterprise license applied on all nodes
    • Dell EMC-customized ESXi 6.7 image

    For download instructions, see VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Image Customization Information on Dell EMC Online Support. Make a note of the image location on your system because you will need it to mount virtual media.

    • Hostnames, management VLAN ID, and IP address information
    • vSphere credentials
    • Static IP addresses for each of the management servers
    • DNS server records for hostnames (forward and reverse)

    Note: The iDRAC User Guide provides instructions for setting up the iDRAC, including configuring the IP address. For a link to the guide, see the iDRAC page on Dell EMC Online Support.