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Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Architecture Overview

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VMware NSX Edge node deployment

The VMware NSX ready deployment is a variation of standard deployment that includes PowerFlex hyperconverged or compute-only nodes.

This includes an additional VMware NSX Edge node cluster deployment.

Table 1. Customizable hardware aspectsThe following table describes the customizable hardware aspects available.
Hardware Minimum set
Compute VMware NSX transport is configured on PowerFlex compute-only nodes or PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes.
Network
  • Supports either a traditional Ethernet architecture (Cisco Nexus or Dell PowerSwitch) or leaf-spine topology (Cisco Nexus).
  • By default, the VMware NSX Edge physical nodes connect directly to either the aggregation or border leaf switches, depending on the network topology. If there is a limitation because of port capacity or cable distance, the management and transport connections (not Edge/BGP uplinks) are relocated from the aggregation or border leaf switches to the access or leaf switches.
Storage
  • VMware NSX Edge nodes can run in either a local RAID1+0 storage (recommended) or a VMware vSAN storage solution.
  • VMware NSX Managers runs on the general shared datastores provided by PowerFlex within the PowerFlex management controller.
  • PowerFlex storage-only nodes are not supported as a VMware NSX transport node.
Management Four PowerFlex controller nodes with high availability. A fourth controller node is included to host VMware NSX Manager.
VMware NSX Edge
  • A minimum of two VMware NSX Edge nodes, if using local RAID storage option.
  • A minimum of four VMware NSX Edge nodes, if using vSAN storage option.
Each VMware NSX Edge node uses three dual-port 25 Gb cards to connect to either the border leaf or aggregation switches. At minimum, four of the six NIC interfaces that are used for transport and external edge traffic must be configured as an individual trunk. The other two NIC interfaces that are used for VMware ESXi management or vSAN traffic are configured with Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) enabled vPC.
NOTE:Do not deploy non-NSX Edge workloads in the VMware NSX Edge VMware vSphere cluster.

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