Dell S3048-ON VxFlex Network Deployment Guide using EMC Networking 25GbE switc - Page 3

Table of contents Revisions...2 Executive summary...5 1 Introduction...6 1.1 Typographical conventions ...6 1.2 Attachments...7 1.3 Dell EMC VxFlex...7 2 Hardware overview...8 2.1 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON ...8 2.2 Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON ...8 2.3 Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Node (R740xd) ...8 3 VxFlex networking overview...9 3.1 Network topologies ...9 3.1.1 Production network ...9 3.1.2 Management network ...10 3.2 Network connectivity...11 3.1 Connections to OOB management switch ...12 3.2 IP addressing...14 3.3 Switch preparation ...16 4 Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON 25GbE switch configuration 18 4.1 Initializing switches ...18 4.2 S5248F-ON leaf switch configuration ...18 4.3 Verify switch configuration ...20 4.3.1 show vlt domain id ...20 4.3.2 show vlt domain id mismatch...21 4.3.3 show vlt domain id backup-link...21 4.3.4 show vlt mac-inconsistency ...22 4.3.5 show spanning-tree brief ...22 4.3.6 show vrrp brief ...22 5 VMware virtual network design ...23 5.1 ESXi management...23 5.2 Load balancing ...23 5.3 Configuration details ...23 5.4 VMware vSphere VMkernel configuration ...25 6 Deploy Dell EMC VxFlex ...27 6.1 Deploy the VxFlex plug-in...27 3 VxFlex Network Deployment Guide using Dell EMC Networking 25GbE switches and OS10EE