Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 6.0.1 Installation and Deployment Guide

Create and configure VMkernel ports for VxRail

Create and configure VMkernel ports for VxRail environments.

1. Create one or two VMkernel ports on each ESXi node by selecting an existing distributed vSwitch “VMware HCIA Distributed Switch.”
   A single VMkernel port is required when using the default of two network adapters (WAN + LAN on one network adapter and data on the other network adapter). This configuration is standard. Two VMkernel ports are required when you are using two network adapters for data.
2. To select one network adapter (uplink) as active, override the NIC teaming policy. The other network adapter should be marked as unused.
   When using a single VMKernel port, assign uplink1 to the port.
   When using two VMkernel ports:

   • Assign uplink1 to one VMkernel port and uplink2 to the second VMkernel port.
   • For uplink2, use traffic shaping to limit bandwidth to no more than 1Gb/s (if NIOC is enabled with the default VxRail setting, traffic shaping is optional):
     1. Locate the port group, right-click it, and select Edit Settings.
     2. In the Edit Settings window, change traffic shaping for the port group:

   Table 1. Traffic shaping valuesTraffic shaping values

   Traffic shaping	Field	Value
   Ingress	Peak bandwidth (kb/s)	1048576
   	Burst size (KB)	102400
   Egress	Status	Enabled
   	Average bandwidth (kb/s)	1048576
   	Peak bandwidth (kb/s)	1048576
   	Burst size (KB)	102400