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Planning Guide—VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x on VxRail
Executive Summary VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail Requirements and Use Cases VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail Workload Domain Planning Data Center and Network Requirements Cloud Foundation on VxRail High-Level Design Cloud Foundation on VxRail Workload Planning Application Dependencies and Routing Decisions Cloud Foundation on VxRail Physical Network Planning Cloud Foundation on VxRail Physical Network Preparation VxRail Cluster Deployment Preparation Prepare for VMware Cloud Foundation Management VI Workload Domain Prepare for Cloud Foundation VI Workload Domain Prepare for NSX-T Edge Gateway Services Prepare for Cloud Foundation Application Virtual Network Appendixes
Appendix A: Cloud Foundation on VxRail checklist
Appendix B: Cloud Foundation on VxRail footprints for sizing
Appendix C: Cloud Foundation on VxRail VLANs
Appendix D: VxRail network configuration
Appendix E: Cloud Builder and management VI workload configuration
Appendix F: VI workload domain configuration settings
Appendix G: Edge Gateway configuration
Appendix H: Application Virtual Network configuration
Appendix I: Sample switch configuration settings

Appendix E: Cloud Builder and management VI workload configuration

Appendix E: Cloud Builder and management VI workload configuration

  • This table lists the configuration settings that are required by Cloud Builder to deploy the Cloud Foundation management workload domain on the VxRail cluster platform.

    Category

    Detail

    Description

    Cloud Builder

    IP Address

    Temporary for Cloud Builder virtual appliance

    Global

    NTP

    IP Address

    DNS

    IP Address

    SSO Site Name

    Must be the same site name as used for the VxRail cluster.

    SSO Domain

     

    DNS Zone Name

     

    SDDC

    Manager

    Hostname

    IP Address

    Domain Name

    NSX-T

    Manager (VIP)

    Hostname

    IP Address

    Manager Node 1
     

    Hostname

    IP Address

    Manager Node 2

    Hostname

    IP Address

    Manager Node 3

    Hostname

    IP Address

    Appliance Size

    (Small, Medium, Large)

    NSX-T Host Overlay Network

    Static IP Assignment Method

    Name of static IP address pool

    IP address range in CIDR format

    Starting IP address to be assigned for host overlay network

    Ending IP address to be assigned for host overlay network

    Gateway

    Dynamic IP Assignment Method

    IP address of DHCP server to assign IP addresses to VTEP tunnel endpoints for host overlay network

    Range of IP addresses in DHCP server to be assigned to VTEP tunnel endpoints for host overlay network

    vSphere Objects

    Data Center Name

    Must match value in VxRail cluster

    Cluster Name

    Must match value in VxRail cluster

    VxRail Distributed Switch Name(s)

    Must match values used in VxRail cluster

    NSX-T Distributed Switch Name

    If deploying separate VDS for NSX-T networking. VDS name must be unique in VxRail cluster.

    vSAN Datastore Name

    Must match value used in VxRail cluster

    vSphere Resource Pools

    SDDC Management

    Required for consolidated architecture

    SDDC Edge

    Required for consolidated architecture

    User Edge

    Required for consolidated architecture

    User VM

    Required for consolidated architecture