Dell VxRail™ Appliance 4.7x Administration Guide

PDF

VMware VDS management tasks

To manage VMware VDS, see SolVe Online for VxRail or VMware vSphere documentation.

The following table lists the administrative tasks by VxRail software release:

Table 1. Management tasksManagement tasks
Task 4.0.1xx 4.0.200, 4.0.3xx, 4.0.4xx, 4.0.5xx 4.5.xxx 4.7.xxx 7.0.xxx Notes
Add a port group on default VMware VDS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See Add a Distributed Port Group in VMware documentation.
Add a port group on new VMware VDS (Dell Node) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See Add a Distributed Port Group in VMware documentation.
Add a VMware VDS (Dell Node) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See Create a vSphere Distributed Switch in VMware documentation.
Change default VMware VDS NIOC configuration Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See vSphere Network I/O Control in VMware documentation.
Change IP address of vMotion Network Not supported Yes Yes Yes Yes Contact Support.
Change IP address of vSAN Network (VxRail-managed VMware vCenter Server) Not supported Yes Yes Yes Yes Contact Support.
Change the IP address of vSAN Network (custome-managed VMware vCenter Server) Not supported Yes Yes Yes Yes Contact Support.
Change the physical NIC Ports of Management Traffic Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Change the physical NIC Ports of VM Network Traffic Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See SolVe Online for VxRail.
Change the physical NIC Ports of vMotion Traffic Yes Yes Not supported Not supported Not supported See SolVe Online for VxRail.
Change the physical NIC Ports of vSAN Traffic Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Change VLAN ID of management, VMware vCenter Server, and VxRail Management Network (VxRail-managed VMware vCenter Server) Not supported Yes Yes Yes Yes See VMware vSphere documentation.
Change VLAN ID of VM Networks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See VMware vSphere documentation.
Change VLAN ID of vMotion Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See VMware vSphere documentation.
Change VLAN ID of vSAN Network Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See VMware vSphere documentation.
Enable Jumbo Frame Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See SolVe Online for VxRail.
Enable network teaming LACP Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Rename default port groups Not supported Yes Yes Yes Yes See VMware vSphere documentation.
Rename default VMware VDS Not supported Yes Yes Yes Yes See VMware vSphere documentation.
Share network traffic with vSAN Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes See SolVe Online for VxRail.

Rate this content

Accurate
Useful
Easy to understand
Was this article helpful?
0/3000 characters
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
  Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\