Deployment Guide

3 ScaleIO/VxFlex OS IP Fabric Best Practice and Deployment Guide with OS10EE | version 1.0
Table of contents
1 Introduction to network virtualization and hyper-converged infrastructure and networking ......................................... 6
1.1 VxFlex OS ........................................................................................................................................................... 7
1.1.1 Benefits of VxFlex OS ........................................................................................................................................ 7
1.1.2 Components ....................................................................................................................................................... 8
1.2 Traffic model for the modern data center ........................................................................................................... 9
1.3 Attachments ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
2 Building a Leaf-Spine topology ................................................................................................................................... 10
2.1 Management network ....................................................................................................................................... 11
2.2 IP-based storage .............................................................................................................................................. 11
2.3 Routing protocol selection for Leaf-Spine ........................................................................................................ 12
2.3.1 BGP .................................................................................................................................................................. 12
2.3.2 OSPF ................................................................................................................................................................ 13
3 Configuration and Deployment ................................................................................................................................... 14
3.1 VxFlex OS solution example ............................................................................................................................ 14
3.1.1 VxFlex OS nodes .............................................................................................................................................. 14
3.1.2 VxFlex OS deployment options ........................................................................................................................ 14
3.2 Physical switch configuration ............................................................................................................................ 14
3.2.1 BGP ASN configuration .................................................................................................................................... 15
3.2.2 BGP neighbor fall-over ..................................................................................................................................... 15
3.2.3 Loopback addresses ........................................................................................................................................ 15
3.2.4 Point-to-point interfaces .................................................................................................................................... 16
3.2.5 Interface/IP configuration .................................................................................................................................. 17
3.2.6 ECMP ............................................................................................................................................................... 18
3.2.7 VRRP ................................................................................................................................................................ 18
3.2.8 Flow control ...................................................................................................................................................... 18
3.3 VMware virtual networking configuration .......................................................................................................... 19
3.3.1 Create a datacenter object and add hosts ....................................................................................................... 19
3.3.2 Create clusters and add hosts .......................................................................................................................... 20
3.3.3 Deploy vSphere distributed switch ................................................................................................................... 20
3.3.4 Create the VDS................................................................................................................................................. 23
3.3.5 Add distributed port groups .............................................................................................................................. 24
3.3.6 Create LACP LAGs .......................................................................................................................................... 26