Dell SmartFabric VxRail Brownfield Deployment - Migrating VxRail Workloads

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  Notes, cautions, and warnings

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  Copyright

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  Purpose of this guide
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  Dell Technologies vision
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  SmartFabric Services
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  SFS UI
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  Typographical conventions

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  Dell PowerSwitch S5248F-ON
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  Dell PowerSwitch S5232F-ON
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  Dell PowerSwitch N3248TE-ON
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  Dell VxRail nodes
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  VxRail node network adapters
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  External switches

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  Existing VxRail Environment Without SFS
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  Existing connections
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  Existing VLANs

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  Minimum requirements
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  Unsupported environments
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  Unsupported features
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  SFS Reserved IP addresses and ASNs
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  OOB management topology
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  OOB management connection details
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  Configure OOB management interfaces
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  Shut down the existing VxRail cluster
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  Enable SmartFabric mode on leaf and spine switches
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  Connect to SmartFabric Services UI
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  Configure fabric and rack names
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  Set spine switches as preferred leaders
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  Create networks for the VxRail cluster
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  Create server interface profiles for the VxRail interfaces
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  Configure Layer 2 uplinks to the external network
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  Power on VxRail nodes

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  Deploy OMNI VM
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  OMNI console configuration
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  OMNI web UI configuration
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  Register vCenter Server in OMNI

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  OMNI vCenter automation demonstration

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  Adding a VxRail Node
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  Add DNS records
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  SFS configuration
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  Add new VxRail node to the cluster

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  Validated Components
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  Dell PowerSwitch systems
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  VxRail E560F nodes
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  VxRail appliance software
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  OMNI software

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  Technical resources
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  Fabric Design Center
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  Feedback and technical support