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Planning Guide—Dell EMC VxRail Network Planning
Planning the VxRail Cluster Implementation
Introduction Decide on VxRail single point of management Decide on VxRail network traffic segmentation Plan the VxRail logical network Plan network exclusions reserved for VxRail Manager Plan network settings for VxRail management components Identify IP addresses for VxRail management components Select hostnames for VxRail management components Identify external applications and settings for VxRail Prepare customer-supplied vCenter server Prepare customer-supplied virtual distributed switch Reserve IP addresses for VxRail vMotion network Reserve IP addresses for VxRail vSAN network Decide on VxRail logging solution Assign passwords for VxRail management Prepare for Dell EMC SmartFabric Services enablement

Prepare customer-supplied vCenter server

  • Note: You can skip this section if you plan to use the VxRail vCenter server. These action items are only applicable if you plan to use a customer-supplied vCenter server in your data center for VxRail.

    Certain prerequisites must be completed before VxRail initial implementation if you use a customer-supplied vCenter as the VxRail cluster management platform. During the VxRail initialization process, it will connect to your customer-supplied vCenter to perform necessary validation steps, and perform configuration steps, to deploy the VxRail cluster on your vCenter instance.

    • Determine if your customer-supplied vCenter server is compatible with your VxRail version.
    • See the Knowledge Base article VxRail: VxRail and External vCenter Interoperability Matrix on the Dell product support site for the latest support matrix.

    Network Configuration Table
    Row 35

    Enter the FQDN of the customer-supplied vCenter Server.

    • Determine whether your customer-supplied vCenter server has an embedded or external platform services controller. If the platform services controller is external to your customer-supplied vCenter, enter the platform services controller FQDN in the Appendix A: VxRail Network Configuration Table.

    Network Configuration Table
    Row 34

    Enter the FQDN of the customer-supplied platform services controller (PSC).

    Leave this row blank if the PSC is embedded in the customer-supplied vCenter server.

    Network Configuration Table
    Row 36

    Enter the single sign-on (SSO) domain for the customer-supplied vCenter server. (For example, vsphere.local)
    • The VxRail initialization process requires login credentials to your customer-supplied vCenter. The credentials must have the privileges to perform the necessary configuration work for VxRail. You have two choices:
    • Provide vCenter login credentials with administrator privileges.
    • Create a new set of credentials in your vCenter for this purpose. Two new roles will be created and assigned to this user by your Dell Technologies delivery services.

    Network Configuration Table
    Row 37

    Enter the administrative username/password for the customer-supplied vCenter server, or the VxRail non-admin username/password you will create on the customer-supplied vCenter server.

    • A set of credentials must be created in the customer-supplied vCenter for VxRail management with no permissions and no assigned roles. These credentials are assigned a role with limited privileges during the VxRail initialization process, and then assigned to VxRail to enable connectivity to the customer-supplied vCenter after initialization completes.
    • If this is the first VxRail cluster on the customer-supplied vCenter, enter the credentials that you will create in the customer-supplied vCenter.
    • If you already have an account for a previous VxRail cluster in the customer-supplied vCenter, enter those credentials.

    Network Configuration Table
    Row 38

    Enter the full VxRail management username/password.

    (For example, cluster1-manager@vsphere.local)
    • The VxRail initialization process will deploy the VxRail cluster under an existing data center in the customer-supplied vCenter. Create a new data center, or select an existing Data center on the customer-supplied vCenter.

    Network Configuration Table
    Row 39

    Enter the name of a data center on the customer-supplied vCenter server.
    • Specify the name of the cluster that will be created by the VxRail initialization process in the selected data center. This name must be unique, and not used anywhere in the data center on the customer-supplied vCenter.

    Network Configuration Table
    Row 40

    Enter the name of the cluster that will be used for VxRail.

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Prepare customer-supplied virtual distributed switch