Users Guide

Validated components

VMware no longer maintains a VMware Compatibility Guide for Cloud Foundation. Since vSAN is an underlying requirement of Cloud

Foundation, any hardware specified as a vSAN Ready Node is approved for Cloud Foundation.

Topics:

• Hardware components

• Software and firmware

• Software

Hardware components

The following hardware components were used in the validation of this solution.

NOTE: Cloud Foundation automatically configures vSAN disk groups, which requires following a few rules for drive

population:

• Identical drive configurations in each target host

• There must be one size for all cache drives, as well as one size for all capacity drives

• The number of capacity drives in a host is cleanly divisible by the number of cache drives (that is, the result is a

whole number)

Table 1. Hardware components

Manufacturer Model Description Specifications

Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis

Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c Compute sled 2x Xeon Gold processor, 256 GB

RAM, Cache drives

Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s Storage sled 12 Gbps SAS, Capacity drives

Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5000s SAS Fabric switch IOM 12 Gbps SAS

Dell EMC Networking MX9116n Network fabric switching engine IOM

Dell EMC Networking MX7116n Network fabric expander IOM

Dell EMC Networking MX5108n Network switch IOM

Dell EMC HBA330 MX Disk controller—internal drives

Dell EMC HBA330 MMZ Disk controller—PowerEdge

MX5016s drives

Dell EMC BOSS MX Boot/OS device BOSS Card MX, 2x 256 GB M.2,

RAID-1 vDisk

Toshiba PX05SMB vSAN cache drive 800 GB, 12 Gbps SAS SSD, 2.5"

Samsung PM1635a vSAN capacity drive 1.6 TB, 12 Gbps SAS SSD, 2.5"

QLogic QL41232HMKR Network interface card Slot Mezz 1A, 2 ports x 25 GbE

Software and firmware

NOTE:

The VMware Compatibility Guide (VCG) is the system of record for versions of certain types of firmware and

drivers which are certified to be compatible with vSphere and vSAN. These include server platform, vSAN disk

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