Deployment Guide

3 VCF on VxRail Multirack Deployment using BGP EVPN
Table of contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail ................................................................................................................ 6
1.2 VMware Validated Design for SDDC on VxRail ................................................................................................. 8
1.3 VMware NSX Data Center .................................................................................................................................. 9
1.4 Prerequisites ..................................................................................................................................................... 10
1.5 Supported switches and operating systems ..................................................................................................... 10
1.6 Typographical conventions ............................................................................................................................... 10
1.7 Attachments ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
2 Hardware overview ..................................................................................................................................................... 11
2.1 Dell EMC VxRail E560 ...................................................................................................................................... 11
2.2 Dell EMC PowerSwitch S5248F-ON ................................................................................................................ 11
2.3 Dell EMC PowerSwitch Z9264F-ON................................................................................................................. 11
2.4 Dell EMC PowerSwitch S3048-ON................................................................................................................... 12
3 Network transport ....................................................................................................................................................... 13
3.1 Layer 3 leaf and spine topology ........................................................................................................................ 13
3.2 BGP EVPN VXLAN overview ........................................................................................................................... 13
3.2.1 The VXLAN protocol ......................................................................................................................................... 15
3.2.2 BGP EVPN VXLAN operation .......................................................................................................................... 15
4 Topology ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16
4.1 Leaf-spine underlay .......................................................................................................................................... 16
4.1.1 BGP ASNs and router IDs ................................................................................................................................ 17
4.1.2 Point-to-point IP networks ................................................................................................................................ 17
4.2 Underlay network connections ......................................................................................................................... 19
4.3 BGP EVPN VXLAN overlay .............................................................................................................................. 20
4.4 VxRail node connections .................................................................................................................................. 21
5 Planning and preparation ........................................................................................................................................... 22
5.1 VLAN IDs and IP subnets ................................................................................................................................. 22
5.2 External services .............................................................................................................................................. 22
5.3 DNS .................................................................................................................................................................. 23
5.3.1 NTP ................................................................................................................................................................... 23
5.3.2 DHCP ................................................................................................................................................................ 23
5.4 Switch preparation ............................................................................................................................................ 24
5.5 Check switch OS version .................................................................................................................................. 24
5.6 Verify license installation .................................................................................................................................. 24
5.7 Factory default configuration ............................................................................................................................ 25