Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 - Cloud Builder Parameters

• Users and Groups tab
• Hosts and Networks tab
• Deploy Parameters tab
Management Workload tab
License keys are required for the following items:
• ESXi hosts
• vSAN
• NSX
• Platform Services Controller
Users and Groups tab
In the Users and Groups tab, you can set the passwords for your initial Cloud Foundation components.
CAUTION: Do not make a mistake on this page because if any of the passwords do not meet the indicated specications, you
must redeploy your Cloud Builder VM, unless you elected to create a snapshot after you created your VM.
NOTE: Minimum password length should be 12 characters for NSX controllers.
Hosts and Networks tab
In the Hosts and Networks tab, perform the following steps:
• Specify the VLAN IDs, subnets, gateways, and MTU for the networks that are used for the four required Cloud Foundation networks.
• Specify the management IP addresses of the deployed hosts which are on the Cloud Foundation management VLAN.
• Specify the range of IP addresses for both the vSAN and vMotion networks.
• Host names that you enter in the Management Domain ESXi Hosts section are also auto-populated in the ESXi Host column of the
ESXi Host Security Thumbprint section.
Deploy Parameters tab
The Deploy Parameters tab contains all the IP addresses and hostnames that must be added to DNS.
• All the hostnames must be congured for forward and reverse lookups.
• Test all the hostnames before attempting validation.
• The NTP server would have already been tested as the ESXi hosts have already been congured to this same NTP server(s).
• Change the hostnames that are listed and the domain that meets the customer required specications.
By default, use of DSA ngerprints as a more secure method to validate a host’s authenticity is optional and disabled. The unique
ngerprints are automatically generated on each host during installation. You can view the ngerprints using the DCUI under View Support
Information. Due to the complexity of the ngerprints, it is easier to access the hosts using SSH where they can be copied and pasted into
the cloud builder deployment parameter sheet. Change the Validate ESXi Thumbprints option to Yes to enable ngerprint validation.
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