3 VxFlex Network Deployment Guide using Dell EMC Networking 25GbE switches and OS9
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Dell EMC VxFlex software components ............................................................................................................. 6
1.2 Typographical conventions ................................................................................................................................. 7
1.3 Attachments ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
2 Hardware overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON ....................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S5048F-ON ..................................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node PowerEdge R730xd .......................................................................................... 8
3 Networking .................................................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Network topology ................................................................................................................................................ 9
3.2 Network connectivity ......................................................................................................................................... 12
3.3 IP addressing .................................................................................................................................................... 14
4 Configure physical switches ....................................................................................................................................... 17
4.1 Factory Default Settings ................................................................................................................................... 17
4.2 S5048F-ON leaf switch configuration ............................................................................................................... 17
4.3 S3048-ON management switch configuration .................................................................................................. 21
4.4 Verify switch configuration ................................................................................................................................ 23
4.4.1 show vlt brief ..................................................................................................................................................... 23
4.4.2 show vlt detail ................................................................................................................................................... 23
4.4.3 show vlt mismatch ............................................................................................................................................ 24
4.4.4 show vrrp brief .................................................................................................................................................. 24
5 VMware virtual network design .................................................................................................................................. 25
5.1 ESXi management ............................................................................................................................................ 25
5.2 Load balancing ................................................................................................................................................. 25
5.3 Configuration details ......................................................................................................................................... 25
5.4 VMware vSphere VMkernel configuration ........................................................................................................ 27
6 Deploying Dell EMC VxFlex ....................................................................................................................................... 29
6.1 Deploy the VxFlex plug-in ................................................................................................................................. 29
6.2 Upload the VxFlex OVA template ..................................................................................................................... 29
6.3 Deploy VxFlex ................................................................................................................................................... 30
6.4 VxFlex GUI ....................................................................................................................................................... 33
7 Best practices ............................................................................................................................................................. 34
7.1 Maximum Transmission Unit size ..................................................................................................................... 34