Deployment Guide

34 Dell EMC XC Xpress Hyper-Converged Appliance Deployment Guide for ESXi | A02
Important: If you have connectivity issues discovering appliances in the Foundation applet verify the
following ports are open. For the Foundation applet to work properly, you must open the following ports for
both IPv4 and IPv6 on the local system from which the Foundation applet is launched:
UDP on port 13000 (Nutanix discovery protocol)
TCP on ports 8000 (Foundation GUI)
TCP on 9442 (proxy)
TCP on 9443 (applet control)
Verify HTTP proxy is configured in Nutanix Prism. For more information on managing your HTTP proxy see
section Setting up the HTTP proxy in Prism.
A.4.1 Management network
The Dell EMC Xpress solution requires a compatible switch for the management network.
Note: The best practice setup is to connect the management port (iDRAC) across all three appliances to the
same switch on the management network.
Note: The management (iDRAC) network may be a separate network from the Host network (Controller and
Hypervisor).
A.4.2 Production network
Dell EMC recommends a redundant Top of Rack (TOR) switches for the production network. The selection
depends on the Network Daughter Cards (NDCs) selected for the Dell EMC XC430 Xpress. For a list of
recommendations for NDC and NIC cabling, see the Dell EMC XC Xpress Series Hyper-converged Appliance
Support Matrix.
The following switch settings are required:
 Enable ipv6 link-local unicast and multicast.
 Disable Spanning Tree Protocol, refer to the corresponding TOR switch documentation. If Cisco TOR,
enable portfast.
 Dell EMC recommends that all the switch ports enable default VLAN access for deployment. If default
VLAN access is not permitted, refer to the Nutanix Field Installation Guide for assigning a VLAN tag
during deployment.
Note: Configure all servers in a single domain.