- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- Introduction
- VxRail network planning overview
- Plan the VxRail network
- VxRail cluster types
- VxRail hardware and switch selection decision points
- Prepare the data center to implement VxRail
- Decide on an IP address scheme
- Prepare external network connectivity for VxRail
- Prepare service connectivity for VxRail
- Prepare for VMware vSphere+ subscription licensing
- Prepare data center routing services
- Prepare for multirack VxRail cluster
- Prepare for VMware vSAN HCI mesh topology
- Prepare external FC storage for dynamic clusters
- Prepare for VxRail custom uplink assignments
- Prepare data center network MTU
- Prepare for LAG of VxRail networks
- Plan LAG on switch port pairs
- Prepare certificate authority server for VxRail
- Identify isolation IP addresses for VMware vSphere High Availability
- Plan the VxRail cluster implementation
- Decide on VxRail single point of management
- Decide on VxRail network traffic segmentation
- Decide on teaming and failover policies for VxRail networks
- Plan the VxRail logical network
- Plan network settings for VxRail management components
- Plan network settings for VMware vCenter Server management network
- Identify IP addresses for VxRail management components
- Select hostnames for VxRail management components
- Identify external applications and settings for VxRail
- Prepare the customer-managed VMware vCenter Server
- Prepare a customer-managed VMware VDS
- Reserve IP addresses for VxRail-managed VMware vSphere vMotion network
- Reserve IPv4/IPv6 addresses for VxRail vSAN network
- Decide on VxRail logging solution
- Assign passwords for VxRail management
- Plan VMware vSAN witness networking
- Plan networking for VxRail Satellite Nodes
- Configure the Network for VxRail
- Prepare to build the VxRail cluster
- VxRail network considerations after implementation
- Appendix A: VxRail Network Configuration Table
- Appendix B: VxRail Passwords
- Appendix C: VxRail cluster setup checklist
- Appendix D: VxRail Open Ports Requirements
- Appendix E: VMware VDS port group default settings
- Appendix F: Physical Network Switch Examples
- Pre-defined network profile: 2x10gb or 2x25gb from a single NDC/OCP
- Predefined network profile: 4x10gb or 4x25gb NDC/OCP
- Predefined network profile: 2 x 10/25 GB NDC/OCP and 2 x 10/25 GB PCIe
- Custom option: Any NDC/OCP ports paired with PCIe ports
- Custom option: Two NDC/OCP ports paired with PCIe ports other than the first slot
- Custom option: PCIe ports only
- Custom option: Six ports
- Custom option: Eight ports
- Custom option: Eight ports connected to four Ethernet switches
Dell VxRail Network Planning Guide
Appendix A: VxRail Network Configuration Table
The Dell service representative uses a data collection workbook to capture the settings that are required to build the VxRail cluster. The workbook includes the following information:
| Row | Topic | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VxRail Networks | External Management VLAN | Untagged traffic is recommended on the Native VLAN. If you want the host to send only tagged frames, manually configure the VLAN on each ESXi host using DCUI and set tagging for your management VLAN on your switch before you deploy VxRail. |
| 2 | Internal Management VLAN | This network traffic should stay isolated on the ToR switches. The default VLAN ID is 3939. | |
| 3 | vMotion VLAN | VMware vSphere vMotion VLAN | |
| 4 | vSAN VLAN | VMware vSAN VLAN | |
| 5 | Guest Networks VLAN | Network name | |
| 6 | VLAN | ||
| 7 | VMware vCenter Server Management VLAN | VMware vCenter Server network on the same VLAN as external management network by default. Can also be assigned a unique VLAN. | |
| 8 | External Management Network Settings | IPv4 subnet mask | IPv4 subnet mask for VxRail External Management Network |
| 9 | IPv4 Gateway | IPv4 default gateway for VxRail External Management Network | |
| 10 | IPv6 Prefix | IPv6 prefix for VxRail External Management Network | |
| 11 | IPv6 Gateway | IPv6 default gateway for VxRail External Management Network | |
| 12 | VMware vCenter Server Management Network | IPv4 Subnet Mask | VMware vCenter Server IPv4 network on the same subnet as external management network by default. Can optionally be assigned a new subnet mask. |
| 13 | IPv4 Gateway | VMware vCenter Server network can optionally be assigned a new gateway. | |
| 14 | IPv6 Prefix | VMware vCenter Server IPv6 network can optionally be assigned a new IPv6 prefix. | |
| 15 | IPv6 Gateway | VMware vCenter Server network can also optionally be assigned a new IPv6 gateway. | |
| 16 | System | Global Settings | Time zone |
| 17 | Top level domain | ||
| 18 | Data Center Services | DNS servers - IPv4 | |
| 19 | DNS servers - IPv6 | ||
| 20 | NTP servers - IPv4 | ||
| 21 | NTP servers - IPv6 | ||
| 22 | VxRail Manager | Hostname | |
| 23 | IP address - IPv4 | ||
| 24 | IP address - IPv6 | ||
| 25 | ESXi Hostnames | VxRail auto-assign method | Prefix |
| 26 | Separator | ||
| 27 | Iterator | ||
| 28 | Offset | ||
| 29 | Suffix | ||
| 30 | Customer-supplied method | ESXi hostname 1 | |
| 31 | ESXi hostname 2 | ||
| 32 | ESXi hostname 3 | ||
| 33 | ESXi hostname 4 | ||
| 34 | VMware ESXi Management Network | VxRail autoassign method | Starting IP address - IPv4 |
| 35 | Ending IP address- IPv4 | ||
| 36 | Starting IP address - IPv6 | ||
| 37 | Ending IP address- IPv6 | ||
| 38 | Customer-supplied method | Address 1 - IPv4 | |
| 39 | Address 2 - IPv4 | ||
| 40 | Address 3 - IPv4 | ||
| 41 | Address 4 - IPv4 | ||
| 42 | Address 1 - IPv6 | ||
| 43 | Address 2 - IPv6 | ||
| 44 | Address 3 - IPv6 | ||
| 45 | Address 4 - IPv6 | ||
| 46 | VMware vCenter Server | VxRail-managed VMware vCenter Server | VMware vCenter Server Hostname |
| 47 | VMware vCenter Server Address - IPv4 | ||
| 48 | VMware vCenter Server Address - IPv6 | ||
| 49 | VMware vCenter Server Hostname (FQDN) | ||
| 50 | VMware vCenter Server SSO Domain | ||
| 51 | Admin username/password or the VxRail nonadmin username and password | ||
| 52 | New VxRail management username and password | ||
| 53 | VMware vCenter Data Center Name | ||
| 54 | VMware vCenter Server Cluster Name | ||
| 55 | VMware VDS | Customer-supplied VMware VDS names | Name of first VMware VDS |
| 56 | Name of second VMware VDS | ||
| 57 | Customer-supplied VMware VDS port groups | Name of VMware VDS port group supporting VxRail external management network | |
| 58 | Name of VMware VDS port group supporting VxRail VMware vCenter Server network | ||
| 59 | Name of VMware VDS port group supporting VxRail internal management network | ||
| 60 | Name of VMware VDS port group supporting VxRail VMware vSphere vMotion network | ||
| 61 | Name of VMware VDS port group supporting VxRail vSAN network | ||
| 62 | VMware vSphere vMotion | VxRail autoassign method | Starting address - IPv4 |
| 63 | Ending address - IPv4 | ||
| 64 | Starting address - IPv6 | ||
| 65 | Ending address - IPv6 | ||
| 66 | Customer-supplied method | VMware vSphere vMotion Address 1 - IPv4 | |
| 67 | VMware vSphere vMotion Address 2 - IPv4 | ||
| 68 | VMware vSphere vMotion Address 3 - IPv4 | ||
| 69 | VMware vSphere vMotion Address 4 - IPv4 | ||
| 70 | VMware vSphere vMotion Address 1 - IPv6 | ||
| 71 | VMware vSphere vMotion Address 2 - IPv6 | ||
| 72 | VMware vSphere vMotion Address 3 - IPv6 | ||
| 73 | VMware vSphere vMotion Address 4 - IPv6 | ||
| 74 | IPv4 Subnet Mask | ||
| 75 | IPv4 Gateway | Default IPv4 gateway or VMware vSphere vMotion stack to enable routing | |
| 76 | IPv6 Prefix | ||
| 77 | IPv6 Gateway | Default IPv6 gateway or VMware vSphere vMotion stack to enable routing | |
| 78 | vSAN | VxRail autoassign method | Starting address - IPv4 |
| 79 | Ending address - IPv4 | ||
| 80 | Starting address - IPv6 | ||
| 81 | Ending address - IPv6 | ||
| 82 | Customer-supplied method | VMware vSAN IP Address 1 - IPv4 | |
| 83 | VMware vSAN IP Address 2 - IPv4 | ||
| 84 | VMware vSAN IP Address 3 - IPv4 | ||
| 85 | VMware vSAN IP Address 4 - IPv4 | ||
| 86 | VMware vSAN IP Address 1 - IPv6 | ||
| 87 | VMware vSAN IP Address 2 - IPv6 | ||
| 88 | VMware vSAN IP Address 3 - IPv6 | ||
| 89 | VMware vSAN IP Address 4 - IPv6 | ||
| 90 | IPv4 Subnet Mask | ||
| 91 | IPv4 Gateway | ||
| 92 | IPv6 Prefix | ||
| 93 | IPv6 Gateway | ||
| 94 | Logging | VMware vRealize Log Insight | VMware vRealize Log Insight hostname |
| 95 | VMware vRealize Log Insight IP address | ||
| 96 | Syslog Server | IP address - IPv4 | |
| 97 | IP address - IPv6 | ||
| 98 | Witness site | Management IP Address | |
| 99 | vSAN IP Address | ||
| 100 | 2-Node Cluster | Node 1 WTS IP address | Must be routable to witness. |
| 101 | Node 2 WTS IP address | Must be routable to witness. | |
| 102 | Witness Sled | Management IP address that should be in the same subnet as VMware ESXi host and witness VM | |
| 103 | Witness VM | Management IP address that should be in the same subnet as VMware ESXi host and witness sled | |
| 104 | Satellite Nodes | Node 1 | VMware ESXi hostname |
| 105 | Management IP address | ||
| 106 | Node 2 | VMware ESXi hostname | |
| 107 | Management IP address | ||
| 108 | Node 3 | VMware ESXi hostname | |
| 109 | Management IP address |
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