Dell VxRail Network Planning Guide

Confirm your data center environment

1. Confirm that you cannot ping any IP address that is reserved for VxRail management components.
2. Confirm that your DNS servers are reachable from the VxRail external management network.
3. Confirm the forward and reverse DNS entries for the VxRail management components.
4. Confirm that your management gateway IP address is accessible.
5. Confirm that the VMware vCenter Server management gateway IP is accessible, if configured.
6. If you decide to use the TCP-IP stack for VMware vSphere vMotion instead of the default TCP-IP stack, confirm that your VMware vSphere vMotion gateway IP address is accessible.
7. If you have configured NTP servers, confirm that you can reach them from your configured VxRail external management network.
8. If you have configured a third-party syslog server for logging, confirm that you can reach it from the network supporting VxRail Manager.
9. If you plan to use a customer-managed VMware vCenter Server, confirm that it is accessible from the network supporting VxRail Manager.
10. If you plan to use a local certificate authority for certificate renewal on VxRail, verify that it is accessible from the network supporting VxRail Manager.
11. If you plan to use secure connect gateways to enable connectivity to the back-end customer Support centers, verify that the gateways are accessible from network supporting VxRail Manager.
12. If you plan to deploy a witness at a remote site to monitor vSAN, confirm that there is a routable path between the witness and this network for the management traffic and VMware vSAN witness traffic.
13. If you plan to install the VxRail nodes in more than one rack, and you plan to terminate the VxRail networks at the ToR switches, verify that routing services have been configured upstream for the VxRail networks.