Users Guide
Contents
1 Dell Engineered Solution for EVO:RAIL setup checklist................................ 5
2 VMware EVO:RAIL Network Configuration table........................................... 7
3 EVO:RAIL Networking........................................................................................10
EVO:RAIL Appliance............................................................................................................................ 10
Top-of-Rack switch............................................................................................................................ 13
Understanding switch configuration............................................................................................ 14
Workstation or Laptop (for configuration and management)........................................................... 14
VLANs................................................................................................................................................... 15
Multicast traffic.............................................................................................................................. 15
Configure VLANs on your TOR Switch(es)................................................................................... 15
IP addresses......................................................................................................................................... 16
EVO:RAIL or vCenter Server IP address........................................................................................ 17
ESXi, vSphere vMotion, Virtual SAN IP addresses......................................................................... 18
Hostnames...........................................................................................................................................18
Passwords............................................................................................................................................ 19
Configuration.......................................................................................................................................19
Out-of-Band Management (optional)................................................................................................20
4 Networking best practices................................................................................22
5 Avoiding common mistakes ............................................................................ 23
6 EVO:RAIL Appliance........................................................................................... 24
Hardware............................................................................................................................................. 24
Software...............................................................................................................................................25
Prerequisites ....................................................................................................................................... 25
7 EVO:RAIL Deployment.......................................................................................26
8 EVO:RAIL Setup Validation ...............................................................................27
9 EVO:RAIL Initial Configuration........................................................................ 30
Overview..............................................................................................................................................30
Customization.....................................................................................................................................30
Initial configuration walk-through......................................................................................................31
10 Appendix A: JSON configuration file............................................................35
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