Dell EMC VxRail E series - Chassis dimensions; Chassis weight

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and are assigning a hostname and IP address. These components can include VxRail Manager, VxRail vCenter Server, VxRail
Platform Service Controller, Log Insight, and each ESXi host in the VxRail cluster. The DNS entries must support both forward and
reverse lookups.
Figure 8. Sample DNS Forward Lookup Entries
Figure 9. Sample DNS Reverse Entries
Use the VxRail Network Configuration Table to determine which VxRail management components you will be including in your
planned VxRail cluster, and have assigned a hostname and IP address. vMotion and vSAN IP addresses are not configured for
routing by VxRail, so there are no entries required in the DNS server.
Step 7: Prepare Customer-Supplied vCenter Server
NOTE:
You can skip this section if you plan to use the VxRail vCenter Server. These action items are only applicable if you
plan to use a Customer-Supplied vCenter Server in your data center for VxRail
Certain pre-requisites must be completed and settings provided before VxRail initialization if you decide to use a Customer-
Supplied vCenter as the VxRail cluster management platform. During the VxRail initialization process, it will connect to your
Customer-Supplied vCenter in order to perform the necessary validation and configuration steps to deploy the VxRail cluster on
your vCenter instance.
• Determine if your Customer-Supplied vCenter Server is compatible with your VxRail version.
o Refer to the Knowledge Base article “VxRail: VxRail and external vCenter interoperability matrix” on the Dell-
EMC product support site for the most current support matrix.
• Enter the FQDN of your selected, compatible Customer Supplied vCenter Server in the VxRail Network Configuration Table.
Network Configuration
Table
✓ Row 19
Enter the FQDN of the Customer Supplied vCenter Server
• Determine whether your Customer Supplied vCenter Server has an embedded or external Platform Services Controller. If the
Platform Services Controller is external to your Customer-Supplied vCenter, enter the Platform Services Controller FQDN in
the VxRail Network Configuration Table.
Network Configuration
Table
✓ Row 18
Enter the FQDN of the Customer Supplied Platform Services Controller (PSC)
Leave this row blank if the PSC is embedded in the Customer Supplied vCenter Server.