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48 Dell EMC PowerEdge MX SmartFabric Configuration Guide with Cisco ACI
4.5 vCenter configuration overview
The existing ACI environment has two PowerEdge R730xd rack servers connected to the ACI leafs. The rack
servers are in a vSphere cluster named Management.
After the SmartFabric is deployed and uplink is created, the rack servers can be added to vCenter. To create
a data center, create a cluster, add a host, create virtual machine, configure a cluster and create VDS, see
Documentation related to configure vCenter.
The MX compute sleds can now communicate with the rack servers and the vCenter, mgmtvc01. The MX
compute sleds are joined to the vSphere cluster by an administrator as shown in Figure 42.
Hosts and VMs used in the validated environment in a single vSphere cluster
For information on creating VDS and configuring networking for VDS, see Setting up Networking with vSphere
Distributed Switches.