These are the core VLANs that need to be configured on the data center switches supporting the Cloud Foundation on VxRail platform.
Cloud Foundation on VxRail VLANs
Category |
VLAN |
Description |
Domain |
External Management |
VxRail cluster and ESXi hosts |
Internal Management |
VxRail device discovery |
|
vMotion |
Virtual machine migration |
|
vSAN |
vSphere datastore |
|
NSX-T |
Host Overlay |
NSX-T VTEP. Must be able to reach DHCP server to assign IP addresses for host overlay network. |
Node Management |
Out-of-band management |
Dell PowerEdge iDRAC network (optional) |
Stretched Cluster |
Witness Traffic Separation |
Segment traffic between witness and two sites (optional) |
Application Virtual Network VLANs – required if Application Virtual Network is enabled
Category |
VLAN |
Description |
Application Virtual Network |
Uplink 1 |
NSX-T Tier-0 gateway uplink. Used for BGP peering with upstream routing services. |
Uplink 2 |
NSX-T Tier-0 gateway uplink. Used for BGP peering with upstream routing services. |
|
Edge Overlay |
Used for edge overlay network connecting NSX-T edge nodes used for Tier-0 gateways |