Planning Guide—Dell EMC VxRail Network Planning

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  Revision history
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  Intended use and audience
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  Introduction to VxRail

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  Introduction
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  VxRail hardware and the physical network infrastructure
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  VxRail clusters, appliances, and nodes
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  Network switch
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  Data center network
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  VxRail Ethernet port options
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  VxRail Ethernet adapter options
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  VxRail node connectivity options
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  VxRail networking rules and restrictions
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  Topology and connections

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  Introduction
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  Software-defined data center
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  Dell EMC SmartFabric network mode
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  vSphere with Kubernetes on VxRail
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  vSAN stretched-cluster
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  2-node cluster

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  VxRail nodes and switches

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  Introduction
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  Plan data center routing services
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  Plan for multi-rack VxRail cluster
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  Plan for a vSAN HCI mesh topology
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  Plan for VxRail custom uplink assignments
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  Plan for link aggregation of VxRail networks
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  Plan link aggregation on switch port pairs

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

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  Introduction
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  Setting up the network switch for VxRail connectivity
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  Setting up the upstream network for VxRail connectivity
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  Confirm your data center network
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  Confirm your data center environment

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  Introduction
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  Configuring a workstation/laptop for VxRail initialization
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  Perform initialization to create a VxRail cluster

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  Introduction
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  Configure teaming and failover policies for VxRail networks
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  Using unassigned physical ports for VxRail networks
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  Configure link aggregation on VxRail networks
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  Deploy second VDS for VxRail networking

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  Introduction
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  Appendix A: VxRail Network Configuration Table
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  Appendix B: VxRail Passwords
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  Appendix C: VxRail Setup Checklist
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  Appendix D: VxRail Open Ports Requirements
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  Appendix E: Virtual Distributed Switch Portgroup Default Settings
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  Appendix F: Physical Network Switch Examples