Deployment Guide

14 ScaleIO/VxFlex OS IP Fabric Best Practice and Deployment Guide with OS10EE | version 1.0
3 Configuration and Deployment
This section describes how to configure the physical and virtual networking environment for this hyper-
converged VxFlex OS deployment. The following items are discussed:
• Key networking protocols
• Network IP addressing
• Physical switch configuration
• Virtual datacenter, clusters, and hosts
• Virtual networking configuration
3.1 VxFlex OS solution example
There are several options available when deploying VxFlex OS. This section provides a summary of the
options used in this deployment example.
3.1.1 VxFlex OS nodes
The VxFlex OS Data nodes in this deployment example use the following:
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge R730xd (4 qty.)
Hardware setup: PERC H730 configured to enable RDM devices (Appendix B.3)
Cluster name: atx01-w02-ScaleIO
Software: ESXi 6.5
3.1.2 VxFlex OS deployment options
The following options were utilized during the installation of VxFlex OS:
Protection domain: A single protection domain used for simplicity. Protection domains are not within the
scope of this document and are not contingent on the network design.
Storage Pools: Single storage pool.
Fault sets: No fault sets are configured. Fault sets are not within the scope of this document and are not
contingent on the network design.
3.2 Physical switch configuration
This section provides details on configuring the leaf-spine switches that form the physical network.
This document includes multiple attachment files for spine-switch configurations and leaf-switch
configurations. The example configurations are based on a solution assembled in the Dell EMC Networking
lab and require editing to fit your network.