Dell EMC VxRail E series - Using Solve Online for VxRail Series procedures; Supported hardware components

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VxRail Network Configuration Table
The Dell EMC service representative will use a VxRail Pre-Site Installation tool with the following information:
Row
Category
Description
1
VxRail
External
Management
VLAN ID
The recommended is untagged traffic on the Native VLAN. If you want the host to send only
tagged frames, manually configure the VLAN on each ESXi™ host using DCUI, and set
tagging for your management VLAN on your switch before you deploy VxRail.
2
Internal
Management
VLAN ID
This network traffic should stay isolated on the top-of-rack switches. The default VLAN ID is
3939.
3
System
Global settings
Time zone
4
NTP server(s)
5
DNS server(s)
6
Management
ESXi
hostnames and
IP addresses
ESXi hostname prefix
7
Separator
8
Iterator
9
Offset
10
Suffix
11
Domain
12
ESXi starting address for IP pool
13
ESXi ending address for IP pool
14
vCenter Server
Leave blank if
Customer
Supplied VC
vCenter Server hostname
15
vCenter Server IP address
16
Platform Services Controller hostname
17
Platform Services Controller IP address
18
Customer
Supplied
vCenter Server
Leave blank if
VxRail VC
Customer Supplied Platform Services Controller (PSC) Hostname (FQDN)
Leave blank if PSC is embedded in Customer Supplied vCenter Server
19
Customer Supplied vCenter Server hostname (FQDN)
20
Customer Supplied vCenter Server SSO domain
21
admin username/password or the newly created VxRail non-admin username and password
22
New VxRail management username and password
23
Customer Supplied datacenter name
24
New cluster name
25
VxRail Manager
VxRail hostname
26
VxRail IP address
27
Networking
Subnet mask
28
Gateway
31
vMotion
Starting address for IP pool
32
Ending address for IP pool
33
Subnet mask
34
VLAN ID
35
vSAN
Starting address for IP pool
36
Ending address for IP pool
37
Subnet mask
38
VLAN ID
39
VM
Networks
… (unlimited
number)
VM Network name and VLAN ID
40
VM Network name and VLAN ID
41
Solutions
Logging
vRealize Log Insight™ hostname
42
vRealize Log Insight IP address
43
Syslog Server (instead of Log Insight)
Optional Feature-Driven Settings
44
SmartFabric
VxRail Cluster
If the VxRail personality profile is to be enabled on a pair of Dell switches running SmartFabric