Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Administration Guide

Define a network

Use this procedure to define a network.

1. On the menu bar, click Settings > Networking and click Networks.
2. Click Define.
3. In the Name field, enter the name of the network. Optionally, in the Description field, enter a description for the network.
4. From the Network Type drop-down, select one of the following network types:
   • General purpose LAN
   • Hypervisor management (supports multi-VLAN or multi-subnet configurations)
   • Hypervisor migration (supports multi-VLAN or multi-subnet configurations)
   • Hardware management
   • PowerFlex data
   • PowerFlex data (client traffic only)
   • PowerFlex data (server traffic only)
   • PowerFlex replication (supports multi-VLAN or multi-subnet configurations)
   • PowerFlex management (supports multi-VLAN or multi-subnet configurations)
   • NAS file management
   • NAS file data

   NOTE:

   • For a PowerFlex configuration that uses a hyperconverged architecture with two/four data networks, you typically have two or four networks that are defined with the PowerFlex data network type.
   • The PowerFlex data network type supports both client and server communications and used with hyperconverged resource groups.
   • For a PowerFlex configuration that uses a two-layer architecture with four dedicated data networks, you typically have two PowerFlex (client-traffic only) VLANs and two PowerFlex data (server-traffic only) VLANs. These network types are used with storage-only and compute-only resource groups
   • For a multi-VLAN or multi-subnet configuration, include adding additional networks only for the following network traffic:
     • Hypervisor management
     • Hypervisor migration
     • PowerFlex management
     • PowerFlex replication
5. In the VLAN ID field, enter a VLAN ID between 1 and 4094.
   NOTE:PowerFlex Manager uses the VLAN ID to configure I/O modules to enable network traffic to flow from the node to configured networks during deployment.
6. Optionally, select the Configure Static IP Address Ranges check box, and do the following:
   1. In the Subnet box, enter the IP address for the subnet. The subnet is used to support static routes for data and replication networks.
   2. In the Subnet Mask box, enter the subnet mask.
   3. In the Gateway box, enter the default gateway IP address for routing network traffic.
   4. Optionally, in the Primary DNS and Secondary DNS fields, enter the IP addresses of primary DNS and secondary DNS.
   5. Optionally, in the DNS Suffix field, enter the DNS suffix to append for hostname resolution.
   6. To add an IP address range, click Add IP Address Range. In the row, indicate the role in PowerFlex nodes for the IP address range and then specify a starting and ending IP address for the range. For the role, select either:
      • Server or Client: Default; range is assigned to the server and client roles.
      • Client Only: Range is assigned to the client role on PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes and PowerFlex compute-only nodes.
      • Server Only: Range is assigned to the server role on PowerFlex hyperconverged nodes and PowerFlex storage-only nodes.

      You can add the virtual IP address value to Server or Client and Server Only.

      NOTE:Do not add the PowerFlex replication networks and data networks gateway to this network.

      NOTE:The Configure Static IP Address Ranges check box is not available for all network types. For example, you cannot configure a static IP address range for the operating system Installation network type. You cannot select or clear this check box to configure static IP address pools after a network is created.
7. Click Save.
8. If replicating the network, repeat steps 1 through 7 to add the remote replication networks.