Dell EMC VxRail E series - Processor specifications; PSU specifications; Expansion bus specifications

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• Decide on the Single Sign-on (SSO) domain configured on your Customer-Supplied vCenter you want to use to enable
connectivity for VxRail, and enter the domain in the VxRail Network Configuration Table.
Network Configuration
Table
✓ Row 20
Enter the Single Sign-on (SSO) domain for the Customer Supplied vCenter Server. (For example
vsphere.local)
• The VxRail initialization process will require login credentials to your Customer-Supplied vCenter. The credentials must have
the privileges to perform the necessary configuration work for VxRail. You have two choices:
o Provide vCenter login credentials with administrator privileges
o Create a new set of credentials in your vCenter for this purpose. Two new roles will be created and assigned to
this user by your Dell EMC Representative.
Network Configuration
Table
✓ Row 21
Enter the administrative username/password for the Customer Supplied vCenter Server., or the
VxRail non-admin username/password you will create on the Customer Supplied vCenter
Server
• A set of credentials need to be created in the Customer-Supplied vCenter for VxRail management with no permissions and no
assigned roles. These credentials are assigned a role with limited privileges during the VxRail initialization process, and then
assigned to VxRail to enable connectivity to the Customer-Supplied vCenter after initialization completes.
o If this is the first VxRail cluster on the Customer-Supplied vCenter, enter the credentials you will create in the
Customer-Supplied vCenter
o If you have already an account for a previous VxRail cluster in the Customer-Supplied vCenter, enter those
credentials
Network Configuration
Table
✓ Row 22
Enter the full VxRail management username/password.
(For example, cluster1-manager@vsphere.local)
• The VxRail initialization process will deploy the VxRail cluster under an existing Data Center in the Customer-Supplied
vCenter. Create a new Data Center, or select an existing Data Center on the Customer Supplied vCenter.
Network Configuration
Table
✓ Row 23
Enter the name of a datacenter on the Customer Supplied vCenter Server.
• Specify the name of the Cluster that will be created by the VxRail initialization process in the selected Data Center. This name
must be unique, and not used anywhere in the Data Center on the Customer-Supplied vCenter.
Network Configuration
Table
✓ Row 24
Enter the name of the cluster that will be used for VxRail.
Step 8. Reserve IP addresses for VxRail vMotion and vSAN networks
An IP address is required for the vMotion and vSAN networks for each ESXi host in the VxRail cluster. The vMotion and vSAN
networks are not routable by default, so a private address range is acceptable. The IP addresses must be contiguous, with the