Users Guide

Domain Name System...................................................................................................................................................28
Network Time Protocol.................................................................................................................................................28
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol mail relay (optional)...................................................................................................28
Certificate Authority (optional)....................................................................................................................................28
Physical network requirements......................................................................................................................................... 28
Network pools......................................................................................................................................................................29
VLANs and IP subnets........................................................................................................................................................ 29
Host names and IP addresses............................................................................................................................................29
Host names and IP addresses for external services................................................................................................. 30
Host names and IP addresses for the virtual infrastructure layer...........................................................................30
8 Networking requirements............................................................................................................32
VMware Cloud Foundation networking............................................................................................................................32
Network configuration options.......................................................................................................................................... 32
Networking and NSX-T...................................................................................................................................................... 33
Network Interfaces........................................................................................................................................................33
Physical Hardware...............................................................................................................................................................33
Virtual Network Interfaces................................................................................................................................................. 33
Network connectivity..........................................................................................................................................................34
VLAN and subnets for networking configuration............................................................................................................34
MTU Settings.......................................................................................................................................................................34
9 Manual switch configuration....................................................................................................... 35
Switch operating mode.......................................................................................................................................................35
VLANs and subnets for manual switch configuration.....................................................................................................35
NSX Switch Specific VLANs..............................................................................................................................................36
Uplink and VLTi ports..........................................................................................................................................................36
Configure the ports for VLTi..............................................................................................................................................36
Configure VLT domain........................................................................................................................................................ 36
Verify VLT settings........................................................................................................................................................ 37
Verify the VLTi (port-channel).....................................................................................................................................37
Configure the Link Aggregation Control Protocol...........................................................................................................37
Configure the host facing ports........................................................................................................................................ 38
Verify switch configuration................................................................................................................................................ 39
10 SmartFabric network configuration............................................................................................ 40
Create chassis groups.........................................................................................................................................................40
Define networks................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Create SmartFabric.............................................................................................................................................................42
Smart Fabric Port Configuration................................................................................................................................. 42
Create SmartFabric using MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine IOMs...................................................................... 43
Configure uplinks................................................................................................................................................................. 44
Configure jumbo frames..................................................................................................................................................... 44
Server templates................................................................................................................................................................. 45
Create a server template..............................................................................................................................................45
Associate server template with a VLAN.....................................................................................................................45
Deploy the server template.......................................................................................................................................... 46
11 Deploy ESXi to cluster nodes...................................................................................................... 47
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