Deployment Guide

39 Dell EMC Networking OS10 Enterprise Edition Switch Configuration Guide for VxRail 4.5

9 Deploy VxRail

A laptop computer or jump box with a web browser for the VxRail user interface is required. It is either

plugged into a leaf switch or able to logically reach the VxRail in-band management VLAN from elsewhere on

the network.

By default, the initial VxRail Manager IP address is 192.168.10.200/24. After initial configuration, the address

changes to its new address on the in-band management network. The new VxRail Manager address used in

this guide is 172.16.11.102/24 per the planning data in Table 3.

During installation, the laptop or jump box must be able to reach both the initial and new VxRail Manager

addresses, so two addresses are configured on the network adapter, one for each network.

Note: Both addresses may be configured at the same time if the network adapter supports it, or in sequence

if required.

The IP addresses configured on the laptop computer/jump box in this example are as follows:

• 192.168.10.1/24, to communicate with the initial VxRail Manager address, 192.168.10.200/24

• 172.16.11.50/24, to communicate with the new VxRail Manager address, 172.16.11.102/24

If a laptop computer is used, the connections appear, as shown in Figure 15.

VxRail Node

S5148F-ON

Laptop

Computer

VxRail Node

192.168.10.1 and

172.16.11.50

Use of a laptop computer for deployment

If a PowerEdge server is used as a jump box, make the connections, as shown in Figure 16. Access the jump

box’s operating system from a workstation via the iDRAC virtual console.

Workstation

VxRail Node

S5148F-ON

PowerEdge

Server

iDRAC

VxRail Node

OOB

Mgmt

192.168.10.1 and

172.16.11.50

PowerEdge server as a jump box

Note: This deployment uses a PowerEdge server as a jump box that is also in the roles of DNS and NTP

server. It may be connected to both leaf switches for redundancy using NIC teaming. Figure 16 shows a

single connection from a jump box to a leaf switch for clarity.