Cloud Foundation for VxRail Prerequisite Chec

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Component
Physical Hardware and ESXi Hosts
Physical Hardware - Racked and cabled and must be installed with ESXi. Minimum of 4 hosts per cluster
type if using vSAN as a datastore.
ESXi Configuration - All ESXi hosts must be configured with the following settings:
- NTP Service enabled, configured and policy set to 'Start and Stop with Host'

DNS Configuration - Pre-Configured

Virtual Infrastructure Layer - All proposed hostnames are resolvable for forward, reverse, short name and
long name resolution.
- vCenter Server
- NSX-T Management Cluster
- SDDC Manager
- VxRail Manager
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Notes

All hosts must be installed with a basic installation of ESXi.

NTP and DNS settings must be the same as the VMware Cloud Builder Appliance
 Management Workloads
Proposed VM Name Application

Management Domain

sfo-m01-vc01 vCenter Server

sfo-m01-nsx01 NSX-T Manager Cluster
sfo-m01-nsx01a NSX-T Virtual Appliance Node #1
sfo-m01-nsx01b NSX-T Virtual Appliance Node #2
sfo-m01-nsx01c NSX-T Virtual Appliance Node #3
sfo-m01-en01 NSX-T Edge Node #1 - North-South
sfo-m01-en02 NSX-T Edge Node #2 - North-South
sfo-vcf01 SDDC Manager Appliance
 Storage
Operating System vCPUs vRAM
Total GB

Virtual Appliance 4 19 462.08 0%

Virtual Appliance - - -
Virtual Appliance 6 24 200
Virtual Appliance 6 24 200
Virtual Appliance 6 24 200
Virtual Appliance 4 8 200
Virtual Appliance 4 8 200
Virtual Appliance 4 16 816
Virtual Infrastructure Totals 34 123 2278.08 Thick Provisioned

Management Workload Domain Calculations

vCPU vRAM Storage
Total Resources 34 123 2278.08
Total with 30% free 2962

Cluster Configuration Storage Calculation

Total Hosts 4 Hosts Total VSAN Storage 0 GB
Host Failure 1 Hosts FTT 1 Hosts
Remaining Hosts 3 Hosts Overhead 15 %
Storage Needed per Host 0 GB
RAM Calculations (Without ESXi efficiencies) Server Configuration SSD HDD
Total Needed Per Host 31 GB Disk Size (GB) 372 0
Host Config 192 GB Disks per host 3 0
Host Memory Utilization 16 % Total RAW by Host 1116 GB
Host Utilization Host Down 41 GB Total RAW by Cluster 4464 GB
Host Memory Utilization Host Down 21 %

CPU Calculation
Host Sockets 2 CPUs
Host Cores 14 Cores
Host Config 28 Cores
Total Cluster Cores 112 Cores
vCPU Per Core 0.30
vCPU Per Core Host Down 0.40
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ESXi
vSAN
7.0

3.0

4.0
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 Hosts and Networks
Instructions: Use the Hosts and Networks tab to input network details, hostname and IPs for the ESXi hosts to be used to impleme
- Grey cells are for information purposes and cannot be modified.
- Red cells mean the input data is either missing and mandatory or some type of validation of the input data has failed.
- Yellow cells indicate input data, default values are included to help illustrate the formatting to be used and align to the VM

Management Domain Networks

Network Type VLAN # Portgroup Name CIDR Notation Gateway
Management Network 1611 vCenter Server Network-* 172.16.11.0/24 172.16.11.253
vMotion Network 1612 vSphere vMotion-* n/a n/a
vSAN Network 1613 Virtual SAN- n/a n/a
NSX-T Host Overlay 1614 n/a n/a n/a
NSX-T Edge Uplink 1 2711 sfo-m01-cl01-vds01-pg-uplink01 172.27.11.0/24 172.27.11.253
NSX-T Edge Uplink 2 2712 sfo-m01-cl01-vds01-pg-uplink02 172.27.12.0/24 172.27.12.253
NSX-T Edge Overlay 2713 n/a 172.27.13.0/24 172.27.13.253

vSphere Distributed Switch Configuration

Primary vSphere Distributed Switch Value
Primary vSphere Distributed Switch - Name sfo-m01-cl01-vds01
Primary vSphere Distributed Switch - vmnics vmnic0,vmnic1
Primary vSphere Distributed Switch - MTU Size 9000
Secondary vSphere Distributed Switch (Optional) Value
Secondary vSphere Distributed Switch - Name n/a
Secondary vSphere Distributed Switch - vmnics vmnic4,vmnic5
Secondary vSphere Distributed Switch - MTU Size 9000

vSphere Distributed Switch Profile Profile-1

vSphere Distributed Switch = One (1) / Physical NICs = Two (2)

Primary vDS - sfo-m01-cl01-vds01 (Created by VxRail Manager)

- System Traffic (Management, vSAN, vMotion) e.g. vmnic0,vmnic1
- Overlay Traffic (Host, Edge and Uplinks) e.g vmnic0,vmnic1
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nput data has failed.

e used and align to the VMware documentation. If a value is not required enter 'n/a', if it turns red then its mandatory.

Management Domain ESXi Hosts

MTU sfo01-m01-esx01 sfo01-m01-esx02 sfo01-m01esx-03
1500 172.16.11.101 172.16.11.102 172.16.11.103
n/a vMotion Start IP n/a vMotion End IP
n/a vSAN Start IP n/a vSAN End IP
9000
9000
9000
9000

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vmnic0,vmnic1

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vmnic4,vmnic5
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sfo01-m01-esx04
172.16.11.104
n/a
n/a
 Deployment Parameters
Instructions: Use the Deployment Parameters tab to input configuration details for physical infrastructure and the componen
- Grey cells are for information purposes and cannot be modified.
- Red cells mean the input data is either missing and mandatory or some type of validation of the input data has failed.
- Yellow cells indicate input data, default values are included to help illustrate the formatting to be used and align to th

Existing Infrastructure Details

✓ Physical Servers Racked with Cabling
✓ DNS Server and DNS Zone Defined
✓ NTP Servers

VxRail Manager Details

✓ VxRail Manager - Hostname and Static IP Defined

vSphere Infrastructure
vSphere Server - Resolvable in DNS
Default password for ESXi Hosts
✓ vCenter Server - Hostname and Static IP Defined
✓ vCenter Datacenter and Cluster Defined
✓ vSphere Resource Pools Defined
✓ Virtual Networking Defined
✓ vSphere Datastores Defined

NSX-T Data Center on vSphere

NSX-T Nodes - Resolvable in DNS
✓ NSX-T Nodes - Hostnames and Static IPs Defined

SDDC Manager
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