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Environment Preparations

Software Environment

Table 1 Software versions

Component

Version

VMware ESXi

6.5.0

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

6.5.0

VMware NSX Manager

6.4.3

VMware vSphere Replication

6.5.1

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

6.5.1

Network Environment

The IP address segments are examples only. You need to obtain the information from the BMS metadata.

Eight network ports are configured for the provisioned BMS, two for accessing the VPC network and six for configuring the QinQ network. vmnic0 and vmnic1 in the example are two network ports for connecting to the VPC network. Different from two network ports connecting to the VPC network, these two ports become uplinks of vSwitch0 by default after provisioned and enabled on the BMS.

The following example is a typical VMware architecture, which consists of three BMSs in cluster mode on which the management and service VMs are deployed. Each server has eight physical network ports configured and each BMS connects to a VPC subnet. You need to plan and configure the network planes used for management, vmotion, vSAN, and VXLAN on the NICs. The following method is for reference only.

Table 2 Network plane planning

Type

Name

IP Address Segment

Gateway

Description

VPC subnet

esx-primary

192.168.0.0/24

192.168.0.1

BMS primary NIC

User-planned VLAN

DPortGroup-mgmt

11.11.11.0/24

11.11.11.1

Management and vMotion plane

DPortGroup-vxlan

11.11.13.0/24

11.11.13.1

vxlan

DPortGroup-vsan

11.11.12.0/24

11.11.12.1

vSAN plane

hb-edge-internal

11.11.8.0/24

11.11.8.1

Service plane

The following table lists the vNICs of the ESXi BMS.

Table 3 vNICs

Network

IP Address

vSwitch uplink

esx-primary

192.168.0.10

vmnic0/vmnic1

DPortGroup-mgmt

11.11.11.101

vmnic2/vmnic3

DPortGroup-vxlan

11.11.13.101

vmnic4/vmnic5

DPortGroup-vsan

11.11.12.101

vmnic6/vmnic7

The following table lists the IP addresses of the management components connected to the DPortGroup-mgmt network.

Table 4 IP addresses of components

Component

IP Address

Domain Name

vCenter Server

11.11.11.3

Optional

NSX manager

11.11.11.4

-

NSX controller

11.11.11.200

11.11.11.201

11.11.11.202

-

DNS/NTP

11.11.11.6

-

Nsx-edge

11.11.11.30

-

Jump VM

11.11.11.2

-
  • The VPC name, subnet, and gateway in Table 2 are defined and input on the console by the tenant during VM creation.
  • You can plan the IP addresses of the vNICs in Table 3.
  • You can plan and allocate the IP addresses in Table 4.
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