In total, we used fourteen VxRail E460F nodes running VxRail version 4.7.410 code on each node, which aligns with Cloud Foundation 3.9.1 requirements. For a complete bill of materials, see VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9.1 on Dell EMC VxRail Release Notes.
The following table shows the hardware components that we used in this configuration. For this deployment, we deployed the VMware Cloud Builder utility on the VCF management domain cluster. If required, you can deploy this utility on separate infrastructure. We used a separate PowerEdge R630 server to host the vSAN witness components for the stretched clusters.
Table 2. Hardware resources
VxRail E460F server |
8 |
Stretched VCF management domain, VCF Cloud Builder VM, and NSX DHCP VM |
ESXi6.7 U3b |
VxRail E460F server |
6 |
Stretched VI workload domain connected to PowerMax SRDF/Metro devices |
ESXi6.7 U3b |
Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 server |
1 |
Stand-alone server used as witness host for VCF vSAN stretched cluster |
ESXi6.7 U3b |
PowerMax 8000 Array |
1 |
External storage for VCF VI workload domain. R1 of SRDF configuration |
PowerMaxOS 5978 |
PowerMax 2000 Array |
1 |
External storage for VCF VI workload domain. R2 of SRDF configuration |
PowerMaxOS 5978 |
Cisco Nexus 9372PX Switch |
2 |
L3 switches are used for VCF management, vMotion, vSAN, NSX VxLAN, vRealize Network |
7.0(3)I5(2) |
