Solutions Guide Dell Technologies—VMware Cloud Foundation 4-node JumpStart Solutions Guide Configuring Cloud Foundation Consolidated Architecture Abstract This Solutions Guide provides an overview of the Dell JumpStart Solution which integrates PowerEdge and PowerSwitch hardware with VMware Cloud Foundation with instructions to accelerate your entry into the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC).
Revisions Revisions Date Description December 2020 Initial release Acknowledgements Author: Peter Giulietti Support: Sheshadri PR Rao (InfoDev) Other: The information in this publication is provided “as is.” Dell Inc. makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the information in this publication, and specifically disclaims implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Executive summary Executive summary Business IT departments are challenged to deploy cloud infrastructure in an increasingly complex environment. New hardware and software provide greater capabilities, but with greater complexity. Multiple management interfaces are required to configure and deploy your compute, storage, and software to provide a unified solution.
Out-of-Band Management Network Introduction This Solutions Guide provides instructions about configuring, deploying, and implementing the Dell Technologies JumpStart Solutions. This guide is designed to work with the Dell Technologies VMware Cloud Foundation for PowerEdge Deployment Guides. The deployment of a VMware Cloud Foundation Management Domain is same as the previous guides with only minor changes. Any changes made from the original guides will be described here.
Out-of-Band Management Network 1 Dell Technologies JumpStart network architecture The JumpStart Solution is built on a simplified network architecture. In this design, the hosts are connected to a pair of ToR (Top of Rack) switches. While the rack server configuration is obvious, the MX configuration, using the pass-through Input Output Modules (IOMs) is the same but less obvious. Using the pass-through IOM directly connects the A-fabric NIC port to the corresponding external port on the pass-through IOM.
Out-of-Band Management Network 1.1 Out-of-Band Management Network Out-of-Band (OoB) management traffic for Management Modules (MX), iDRACs (Rack), and switch management should be a simple flat network but there are no specific requirements for OoB management networking. 1.2 Dynamic Routing In the example environment deployed here, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) was used in the upper layer routing. NSX-T will be configured to exchange route information through BGP with the existing routers.
Additional networks 1.3.1 Management network The management network is the network used to access different components of VM Cloud Foundation and it is the network on which the VM Cloud Foundation hosts are managed. This network does not require an MTU size larger than the minimum MTU but there is no issue if the network has an MTU larger than the Ethernet standard. 1.3.2 vSAN network By default, VM Cloud Foundation uses vSAN storage. A vSAN will be created when VM Cloud Foundation is deployed.
Network services Layer 2 and Layer 3 Connectivity IMPORTANT—If VLT (Virtual LAN Trunking) is implemented between the router members then both the 2711 and 2712 VLANs must be created on both the router members. Inability to create the VLANs on each of the router members causes an imbalanced L2 VLT configuration and will cause the routing required for the Edge Cluster to fail. 1.4.
Deploy VM Cloud Foundation Management Domain cluster 2 Deploy the JumpStart Solution The deployment of JumpStart Solution has the following major tasks: • • • • • • • 2.
Configure SDDC Manager to communicate with the VMware software bundle repositories 2.2 Configure SDDC Manager to communicate with the VMware software bundle repositories Up to this point, the Cloud Foundation deployment has followed the procedure described in the current deployment guides. After the Management Domain is deployed, you can configure the Management Domain by doing the following: • • • 2.2.1 Configure SDDC Manager for access to the VMware online software bundles.
Get access to VMware software bundles 2.3 Get access to VMware software bundles 1. On the SDDC Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI), in the left pane, under Administration, click Repository Settings. Authenticate to get access to VMware software bundles 2. In the working pane, click Authenticate. 3. Enter the email address and password to which your VMware products are associated. 4. Click Authorize. SDDC Manager now has access to the software bundles available on the VMware online repositories.
Manage software bundles in VM Cloud Foundation 2.4 Manage software bundles in VM Cloud Foundation 1. To view the bundles that are now available for download, in the left pane, click Bundle Management. A list of bundles and their availability status for downloading is displayed in the working pane: 2. Before your proceed, check tf there are any VMware Cloud Foundation updates, download, and then install them.
Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX-T 3 Deploy an NSX-T Edge Cluster An NSX-T Edge cluster consists two edge nodes that will function as the transport nodes for NSX-T. SDDC Manager will be used to deploy the Edge Node Cluster. You must know information about your BGP−routed environment, VLANs, and subnets that have been physically deployed (to the switches and routers) to create the cluster. 3.
Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX-T 2. Click the management domain. Information about the selected management domain is displayed. 3. Expand Actions. Add an Edge Cluster 4. Click Add Edge Cluster. This will begin the process to create the Edge Cluster. The process will deploy the cluster as well as deploying and configuring the edge nodes, transport nodes, and all the connections up to the routed environment.
Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX-T 3.1.1.1 Add an Edge Cluster 1. Before you start adding an Edge Cluster, ensure that you select appropriate check boxes to indicate that you have fulfilled the prerequisites, and then click BEGIN. 2. Enter a cluster name. 3. Enter the MTU value. The recommended value is 9,000. Enter properties of an Edge Cluster 4.
Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX-T c. • • • Enter the Edge TEP IP address, gateway, and VLAN numbers. Each edge node will have two IP addresses on the Edge Overlay network. These IP addresses must not conflict with the second Edge Node. In this example, the VLAN is 2713 and the subnet is 172.27.13.0/24. Enter FQDN and LAN properties of an Edge Cluster d. Select the name of the cluster that you named earlier. e. Select L2 Uniform as the cluster type. f. Create the required uplinks.
Fully Collapsed vSphere Cluster NSX-T 4 JumpStart Solution is deployed and ready After successfully creating the Edge Node Cluster, you have the following installed and configured—all running on a vSAN: • • • • • • • • A fully functional VCF Consolidated Architecture cluster. SDDC manager VCenter NSX Manager Associated NSX-T controllers and edge nodes have been installed and configured Access to the VMware software bundles is tested and functional.
