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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
Introduction
Data center rack space requirements
Data center networking
Network switch selection
Switch port capacity
Switch port type
Jumbo Frames
Multicast
Border Gateway Protocol
Hardware VTEP for multi-rack deployments
Network services
Storage Services
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

Network switch selection

Network switch selection

  • Cloud Foundation on VxRail is supported with either Dell-branded switches or most major enterprise switching products. You should plan on a pair of switches in the top of each data center rack used for Cloud Foundation on VxRail for redundancy purposes. Each VxRail node deployed to support Cloud Foundation on VxRail needs at least one connection into each switch, and possibly more depending on use cases and workload requirements. The first rack which supports the Cloud Foundation on VxRail management domain must integrate with your existing data center infrastructure using Layer 3 network services with a pair of uplinks. If your requirements will expand beyond a single rack, plan on expanding to a leaf-spine network topology. A multi-rack deployment requires additional switch ports be reserved on the top-of-rack switches to connect to the spine layer.

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    Figure 14.    Single site Cloud Foundation on VxRail deployment across two racks