Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 - Page 4

Cabling...............................................................................................................................................................................25
Cabling for a single PowerEdge MX7000 enclosure conguration......................................................................25
Cabling for a dual MX7000 enclosure conguration............................................................................................. 26
Cabling for a dual PowerEdge MX7000 enclosure conguration using Fabric Switching Engines................. 28
7 Cloud Foundation and SDDC design considerations..................................................................................... 32
External services overview............................................................................................................................................. 32
Active Directory..........................................................................................................................................................33
Dynamic Host Conguration Protocol.....................................................................................................................33
Domain Name System............................................................................................................................................... 33
Network Time Protocol............................................................................................................................................. 33
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol mail relay (optional)................................................................................................ 33
Certicate Authority (optional)................................................................................................................................ 34
Physical network requirements...................................................................................................................................... 34
Network pools.................................................................................................................................................................. 34
VLANs and IP subnets.....................................................................................................................................................34
Host names and IP addresses........................................................................................................................................ 35
Host names and IP addresses for external services..............................................................................................35
Host names and IP addresses for the virtual infrastructure layer........................................................................36
Host names and IP addresses for the operations management layer................................................................. 37
8 Networking requirements.............................................................................................................................38
VMware Cloud Foundation networking.........................................................................................................................38
Network conguration options.......................................................................................................................................39
Network connectivity...................................................................................................................................................... 39
VLAN and subnets for networking conguration........................................................................................................ 45
9 Manual switch conguration........................................................................................................................46
Switch operating mode................................................................................................................................................... 46
VLANs and subnets for manual switch conguration................................................................................................. 46
Uplink and VLTi ports.......................................................................................................................................................47
Congure the ports for VLTi...........................................................................................................................................48
Congure VLT domain..................................................................................................................................................... 48
Verify VLT settings.....................................................................................................................................................48
Verify the VLTi (port-channel)................................................................................................................................. 49
Congure the uplink Link Aggregation Control Protocol.............................................................................................49
Congure the server facing ports..................................................................................................................................50
Verify switch conguration.............................................................................................................................................50
10 SmartFabric network conguration............................................................................................................54
Create chassis groups..................................................................................................................................................... 54
Dene networks...............................................................................................................................................................56
Create SmartFabric..........................................................................................................................................................57
Create SmartFabric using MX5108n Ethernet switching IOMs........................................................................... 57
Create SmartFabric using MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine IOMs...................................................................58
Congure uplinks..............................................................................................................................................................58
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