Users Guide

ESXi, vSphere vMotion, Virtual SAN IP addresses

For ESXi, vSphere vMotion, and Virtual SAN, you are allocating 12 IP addresses per appliance. If you

allocate more IP addresses for future scale-out, you are able to add EVO:RAIL appliances with no

additional configuration; otherwise, you can enter additional IP addresses when you expand EVO:RAIL.

Table 8. IP address requirements

Network IP Requirements

ESXi hosts Continuous IP range is required, with a minimum of 4 IPs. You can

allocate up to 32 IP addresses for future EVO:RAIL appliances in a

cluster. Netmask and gateway are required.

vSphere vMotion Continuous IP range is required, with a minimum of 4 IPs. You can

allocate up to 32 IP addresses for future EVO:RAIL appliances in a

cluster. Netmask is required. These IP addresses cannot be routed.

Virtual SAN Continuous IP range is required, with a minimum of 4 IPs. You can

allocate up to 32 IP addresses for future EVO:RAIL appliances in a

cluster. Netmask is required. These IP addresses cannot be routed.

Network Configuration Table4

Rows 8–10

Type the starting and ending IP addresses, the netmask, and the

gateway for ESXi.

Network Configuration Table4

Rows 13–15

Type the starting and ending IP addresses and netmask for vSphere

vMotion.

Network Configuration Table4

Rows 17–19

Type the starting and ending IP addresses and netmask for Virtual

SAN.

Hostnames

Hostnames are specified for vCenter Server and for each ESXi host in EVO:RAIL Initial Configuration. For

your convenience, the EVO:RAIL GUI prepopulates the hostname fields, but you can easily change them.

ESXi hostnames are defined by a naming scheme that includes: an ESXi hostname prefix (an

alphanumeric string), a separator ("None" or a dash "-"), an iterator (Alpha, Num X, or Num 0X), and a top-

level domain. The Preview field in the EVO:RAIL GUI shows an example of the result for the first ESXi host.

For example, if the prefix is "esxihost", the separator is "None", the iterator is "Num 0X", and the top-level

domain is "local", the first ESXi hostname would be "esxihost01.local".

The vCenter Server hostname is an alphanumeric string. The top-level domain is automatically applied to

the vCenter Server hostname. (For example, vcenter.local)

Add your EVO:RAIL hostnames to your DNS server, unless you are in an isolated environment.