Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines 6.0.1 Installation and Deployment Guide
Preparing the network for VxRail
Prepare the network for the VxRail environment by choosing a network adapter topology and defining the required ports.
About this task
VxRail supports adding a PCIe NIC to the node in E, P, S, and V Series. VxRail initialization does not impact the PCIe NIC. You can connect unused ports to the VxRail system vSphere Distributed switch. Alternatively, you can create a vSphere Standard Switch (VSS)/vSphere Distributed switch and connect the unused ports after initialization. The ports are available for uses such as RecoverPoint traffic. VxRail G-Series 2x10G models have only 2x10G ports.
In VxRail 4.0 and later, vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) is enabled during initialization, and vSAN traffic has the highest priority to consume the bandwidth in contention. If NIOC is enabled with the default VxRail setting, you can use the vSAN port for other traffic.
The configuration described here uses the G-Series 2x10G model uplink configuration and VxRail system vSphere Distributed switch default name ("VMware HCIA Distributed Switch") as an example. Choose a vSwitch and uplink name according to the VxRail model and uplink configuration.
Prepare the required port groups on the VMware HCIA Distributed Switch.
Procedure
- Use the default configuration of two network adapters (WAN + LAN on one adapter and data on the other) unless required to use a different network adapter topology. For this configuration, define two port groups: RP_WAN+LAN and RP_DATA.
- If using a single network adapter, define one port group: RP_ALL.
- If using four network adapters, define four port groups: RP_WAN, RP_LAN, RP_DATA1, RP_DATA2.
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