- 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
Prepare LAG on a customer-managed VMware VDS
Skip this section if your VxRail version is not 7.0.130 or later, and you do not plan to enable LAG against one or more VxRail networks on the customer-managed VMware VDS.
From VxRail 7.0.130 and later, you can configure LAG against the VxRail non-management networks, which include the vSAN network and VMware vSphere vMotion network.
Ensure that you meet the following prerequisites to enable LAG on the VxRail non-management networks:
- There is a requirement for four ports from each VxRail node to support VxRail networking, these can include additionally installed PCIe adapters.
- Two ports to support VxRail management networks. LAG is not supported on these networks.
- Two ports to support VxRail non-management networks. LAG is supported on these networks.
- LAG can be configured on the vSAN network, VMware vSphere vMotion network, or both.
- If you are not configuring LAG on the VMware vSphere vMotion network, assign this network to the same uplinks supporting the VxRail management networks.
- Configure the adjacent ToR switches to support LAG. See the guides provided by your switch vendor to perform this task.
Complete the following tasks on the VMware VDS on your customer-managed VMware vCenter Server instance to support LAG:
- Configure an LACP policy on the VMware VDS.
Figure 1. Sample LACP policy configured on VMware VDS 
- Configure the teaming and failover policy on the port groups that are targeted for LAG.
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