Deployment Guide

7 VxFlex Network Deployment Guide using Dell EMC Networking 25GbE switches and OS9
In this environment, the VxFlex/ScaleIO Virtual Machine (SVM) hosts the MDM and SDS roles. Each VxFlex
node, running ESXi, has a separate SVM. The following illustration shows the communication between these
components:
VxFlex component communication
1.2 Typographical conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
Monospaced text Command Line Interface (CLI) examples
Bold monospaced text Commands entered at the CLI prompt
Italic monospaced text Variables in CLI examples
Bold text Graphical User Interface (GUI) fields and information that is entered in
the GUI
1.3 Attachments
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