Dell VxRail™ Appliance 4.7x Administration Guide

Set up the two iSCSI network portgroups

In the process of port binding, you create two virtual VMkernel adapters for each physical network. You then associate the VMkernel adapters with the software iSCSI storage adapter created in the following steps. Create the distributed port groups first.

1. Log in to the vSphere Client as an authorized user.
2. In the vSphere Client, click the home icon and go to the Networking configuration page.
3. Highlight VMware HCIA Distributed Switch and then right-click it to create a new distributed port group.
   The New Distributed Port Group window is displayed.
4. In the Select name and location window enter the port group name.
   A name containing “uplink1” is recommended.
5. In the Configure settings window enter the general properties and specify the related VLAN ID if you are using a VLAN.
6. In the Ready to complete window, review your entries and then click Finish to complete the port group creation.
   The new distributed port group is created.
7. In the Home list, right-click the new portgroup and select Edit Settings.
   The Edit Settings window is displayed.
8. If the port speed is 10Gb, change Traffic Shaping for the iSCSI portgroup as follows:
   • Set Ingress traffic shaping: status to Enabled, Average bandwidth(kbit/s) to 1048576, Peak bandwidth (kbit/s) to 1048576, and Burst size (KB) to 102400.
   • Set Egress traffic shaping: status to Enabled, Average bandwidth(kbit/s) to 1048576, Peak bandwidth (kbit/s) to 1048576, and Burst size (KB) to 102400.
9. Change Teaming and failover for the iSCSI portgroup as follows:
   • Keep uplink1 as the Active uplink.
   • Move the other uplinks to Unused.
10. Create the second portgroup by repeating steps 3 through 9 with following value changes:
    • In step 4, a name containing "uplink2" is recommended.
    • In step 9, keep uplink2 as the Active uplink.