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Deployment Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation on PowerEdge Servers and Unity Storage
Predeployment Requirements
Introduction Data center requirements Site survey information Validated components

Predeployment Requirements

Validated components

  • The following table lists the software and firmware versions that we have validated with this Ready Stack. Use these or later versions for your Ready Stack deployment.

    Table 1.           Ready Stack validated hardware and software

    Layer

    Device

    Version

    Virtualization hosts

    Dell EMC PowerEdge R640/R740/740xd
    (vSAN Ready Node models that are required for management domain)
    • BIOS 1.6.13
    • iDRAC 3.30.30.30

    Intel X710 quad-port 10 Gb direct attach, small form-factor pluggable plus (SFP+), converged network adapter, low-profile
    • Firmware 18.8.9
    • Driver 18.8.0

    QLogic 2692 dual-port FC host bus adapter (HBA) (workload domain)
    • Firmware 14.10.05
    • Driver 3.1.16.0-1

    Dell EMC PERC H330 minicard
    • Firmware 16.17.00.03
    • Driver 2.51.25.01

    Dell EMC BOSS controller card+ with 2 x M.2 sticks 120 GB (RAID 1) FH, or Internal SD Module with 2 x 16 GB SD Card
    • Firmware 2.5.13.3016
    • Driver 1.2.0.1048

     

    2 X 400 GB SSD SAS write-intensive 12 Gb/s 512n 2.5 in. hot-plug drive, PX05SM, 10 DWPD, 7,300 TBW (optional vSAN caching tier)

    Firmware AS0E, A00

     

    8 x 1.8 TB 10K RPM SAS 12 Gb/s 512e 2.5 in. hot-plug hard drive (optional vSAN capacity tier)

    Firmware 2T51

    Network

    Out-of-band (OOB)—Dell EMC PowerSwitch S4148T-ON switch (S3048-ON may also be used)
    • Firmware 3.33.5.1-19, A00
    • OS 10.4.3.0
    • Top-of-rack (ToR)—Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON switch (leaf)
    • Dell EMC PowerSwitch Z9264F-ON switch (for spine, if needed)
    • Firmware 3.40.5.1-11, A00
    • OS 10.4.3.0

    Storage (workload domain)

    Dell EMC Unity XT x80 all-flash unified storage

    Unity OE 4.5.1.0.5.001

    2 x Dell EMC Connectrix DS-6620B switches

    Fabric OS 8.2.1a

    Software

    VMware Cloud Foundation

    3.5.1

    VMware Cloud Foundation Bill of Materials

    Dell EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)

    8.0

    Dell EMC Storage Analytics (ESA)

    4.6

    Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV)

    4.2

    Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) DP4400

    2.3