Dell VxRail Network Planning Guide

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Default failover order policy

VxRail supports customizing the assignment of uplinks to VxRail networks. VxRail also supports setting either an active/active or active/standby failover policy for the VxRail network port groups.

There are four predefined network traffic types that are required for initialization:

Management
VxRail Management
VMware vCenter Server Network
VMware vSphere vMotionand VMware vSAN

The following tables contain the default active/standby settings that are applied for the network traffic types:

Table 1. 4 x 10 GbE traffic configuration 4 x 10 GbE Traffic Configuration
Traffic type	Uplink1 VMNIC0	Uplink2 VMNIC1	Uplink3 VMNIC2	Uplink4 VMNIC3
Management	Standby	Active	Unused	Unused
VMware vSphere vMotion	Unused	Unused	Standby	Active
VMware vSAN	Unused	Unused	Active	Standby
VMware vCenter Server Network	Active	Standby	Unused	Unused
VxRail Management	Standby	Active	Unused	Unused

Table 2. 2 x 10 GbE or 2 x 25 GbE traffic configuration 2 x 10 GbE or 2 x 25 GbE Traffic Configuration
Traffic type	Uplink1 VMNIC0	Uplink2 VMNIC1	Uplink3 No VMNIC	Uplink4 No VMNIC
Management	Active	Standby	Unused	Unused
VMware vSphere vMotion	Active	Standby	Unused	Unused
VMware vSAN	Standby	Active	Unused	Unused
VMware vCenter Server Network	Active	Standby	Unused	Unused
VxRail Management	Active	Standby	Unused	Unused

Table 3. 2 x 10 GbE or 2 x 25 GbE traffic configuration 2 x 10 GbE or 2 x 25 GbE Traffic Configuration
Traffic type	Uplink1 VMNIC0	Uplink2 VMNIC1	Uplink3 VMNIC2	Uplink4 VMNIC3
Management	Active	Unused	Standby	Unused
VMware vSphere vMotion	Unused	Standby	Unused	Active
VMware vSAN	Unused	Active	Unused	Standby
VMware vCenter Server Network	Standby	Unused	Active	Unused
VxRail Management	Active	Unused	Standby	Unused