Before you begin the Ready Stack deployment, gather site information as outlined in the following tables. You can use this data to help populate the VMware Cloud Foundation deployment parameter worksheet that is described in Chapter 6, VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment. For detailed planning and deployment guidance, see VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Guide.
Table 8. Network topology
Switch |
Hostname |
Management IP address |
VLT ports |
S4148T-ON |
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Not applicable |
S5248F-ON-Top |
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S5248F-ON-Bottom |
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Additional configuration notes (Spanning Tree Protocol, routing protocols, and so on, as applicable): |
Table 9. VLAN information
Network type |
VLAN ID |
S5248F-ON-Top IP CIDR |
S5248F-ON-Bottom IP CIDR |
VRRP IP address |
VRRP group |
S4148T-ON IP address |
OOB |
100 |
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Management domain |
110 |
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vMotion |
120 |
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vSAN |
130 |
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NFS |
140 |
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VXLAN |
210 |
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vRealize |
220 |
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Uplink01 |
230 |
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Uplink02 |
240 |
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Table 10. Network services
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IP address/FQDN |
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DNS [1, 2]: |
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NTP [1, 2]: |
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DHCP [1, 2]: |
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Active Directory [DC1, DC2] |
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Table 11. Switch port mappings
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S5248F-ON-Top |
S5248F-ON-Bottom |
S4148T-ON |
Server |
NIC port 1 |
NIC port 2 |
iDRAC |
Mgmt1 |
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Mgmt2 |
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Comp1 |
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Comp2 |
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Comp3 |
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Table 12. Port channel configuration
Name |
Role |
Number |
Switch |
Port(s) |
VLTi |
Peer-link |
100 |
S5248F-ON-Top |
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S5248F-ON-Bottom |
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OOB |
Standard |
101 |
S5248F-ON-Top |
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S5248F-ON-Bottom |
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S4148T-ON-OOB |
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Table 13. Fibre Channel port mapping
FC port |
WWN |
Alias |
SP-A P0 |
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SP-A P1 |
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SP-A P2 |
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SP-A P3 |
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SP-B P0 |
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SP-B P1 |
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SP-B P2 |
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SP-B P3 |
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Mgmt1 P1 |
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Mgmt1 P2 |
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Mgmt2 P1 |
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Mgmt2 P2 |
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Comp1 P1 |
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Comp1 P2 |
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Comp2 P1 |
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Comp2 P2 |
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Comp3 P1 |
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Comp3 P2 |
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Table 14. Host information
Hostname |
IP address |
Subnet mask |
Gateway |
VLAN |
Mgmt1 |
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Mgmt2 |
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Comp1 |
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Comp2 |
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Comp3 |
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Table 15. Management virtual machines
Hostname |
IP address |
Subnet mask |
Gateway |
VLAN |
SDDC Manager |
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vCenter Server Appliance |
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OMIVV |
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VSI |
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IDPA 4400 |
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Table 16. vSphere HA cluster information
Cluster details |
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Management cluster name |
MgmtPod |
Virtual data center name |
Site A |
Management cluster hosts |
Mgmt1, Mgmt2, Mgmt3. Mgmt4 (optional) |
Compute cluster name |
ComputePod |
Cluster hosts |
Comp1, Comp2, Comp3, … |