Deployment Guide

29 VxFlex Network Deployment Guide using Dell EMC Networking 25GbE switches and OS9
6 Deploying Dell EMC VxFlex
Deploying VxFlex in this environment consists of the following topics:
• Register the VxFlex plug-in
• Upload the VxFlex Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) template
• Deploy VxFlex
This section does not contain step-by-step instructions for deploying VxFlex. For a detailed step-by-step
guide, see the ScaleIO IP Fabric Best Practice and Deployment Guide.
6.1 Deploy the VxFlex plug-in
All physical connectivity and configuration of the VMware vSphere distributed switches are complete. The
VxFlex plug-in for vSphere simplifies the installation and management of the VxFlex system in a vSphere
environment.
Use the following parameters during the installation:
Dell EMC VxFlex VMware vSphere plug-in parameters
Parameter
Setting
vCenter Server
atx01m01vc01.dell.local
Registration mode
Standard
6.2 Upload the VxFlex OVA template
Once the VMware vCenter Dell EMC VxFlex plug-in installation is completed, upload the VxFlex virtual
machine OVA to an R730xd local data store. The OVA serves as a virtual machine template for deploying all
the software components of VxFlex. From the VMware PowerCLI program, select Create SVM Template.
While it is possible to specify separate datastores to correspond to each VxFlex host, this deployment uses a
single datastore for all hosts. VMware vSphere vMotion is used to copy the template to each remaining host
during the VxFlex implementation.
During the installation process, use the parameters shown in the following table:
VxFlex Vmware vSphere plug-in parameters
Parameter
Setting
vCenter Server
atx01m01vc01.dell.local
Data center name
VxFlex
Path to OVA
local OVA path including
file name
Datastore name
atx01w01esx05-lds01