Dell EMC Vxblock™ and Vblock™ Systems 540 Administration Guide
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Dell EMC VxBlock™ and Vblock™ Systems 540 Administration Guide July 2020 Rev. 1.28 Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2015 - 2020 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. Contents Chapter 1: Revision history............................................................................................................. 11 Chapter 2: Introduction..................................................................................................................14 Chapter 3: Intelligent Physical Infrastructure.................................................................................. 15 Chapter 4: Manage compute resources............................................................................................16 Start Cisco UCS Manager ................................................................................................................................................. 16 Directly upgrade firmware at endpoints...................................................................................................................... 16 Upgrade Cisco UCS software with Cisco UCS Firmware Auto Install.................................................................... 17 Activate a Cisco UCS Manager Capability Catalog......................................................................................................... 19 Activate a port license........................................................................................................................................................ 20 Set the time services.......................................................................................................................................................... 20 Add the syslog server......................................................................................................................................................... 20 Delete a syslog server..........................................................................................................................................................21 Add an SNMP server ..........................................................................................................................................................21 Delete an SNMP server......................................................................................................................................................22 Create an IP address block in the management pool..................................................................................................... 22 Create a UUID range...........................................................................................................................................................22 Delete a UUID pool.............................................................................................................................................................. 23 Add a WWNN range............................................................................................................................................................23 Delete a WWNN range....................................................................................................................................................... 24 Add a WWPN range............................................................................................................................................................24 Delete a WWPN range........................................................................................................................................................25 Add a MAC address range................................................................................................................................................. 26 Delete a MAC pool.............................................................................................................................................................. 26 Create a vNIC template......................................................................................................................................................26 Create boot policies.............................................................................................................................................................27 Create an SD boot policy.............................................................................................................................................. 27 Create a SAN boot policy............................................................................................................................................. 27 Create a LAN boot policy for VxBlock Central deployments................................................................................... 28 Cisco Trusted Platform Module.........................................................................................................................................28 BIOS policy (VMware vSphere 6.7)..................................................................................................................................28 Managing service profile templates.................................................................................................................................. 30 Configure service profile templates............................................................................................................................ 30 Cloning the service profile templates..........................................................................................................................32 Adding vNICs to the service profiles...........................................................................................................................33 Configuring service profile templates for Disjoint Layer 2........................................................................................34 Assigning or modifying a management IPv4 address................................................................................................35 Create a network profile for the IPv6 management address.................................................................................. 35 Assign or modify a management IPv6 address..........................................................................................................36 Assigning service profiles to Cisco UCS blade servers.............................................................................................36 Renaming service profiles.............................................................................................................................................36 Contents 3 Chapter 5: Manage networking resources....................................................................................... 38 Manage VMware NSX-V Data Center............................................................................................................................. 38 Manage VMware NSX-T Data Center..............................................................................................................................38 Create a named VLAN on both FIs................................................................................................................................... 38 Create a VLAN group on VxBlock Systems.....................................................................................................................38 Add a VLAN to a service profile template........................................................................................................................39 Add a VLAN to the Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch..............................................................................................................39 Add a VLAN to the Cisco Nexus switches.......................................................................................................................40 Remove a VLAN from the Cisco Nexus switches...........................................................................................................40 Configure a vPC................................................................................................................................................................... 41 Delete a vPC........................................................................................................................................................................ 42 Add VLANs to a vPC...........................................................................................................................................................42 Remove VLANs from a vPC...............................................................................................................................................42 Add vPCs to VLANs for Disjoint Layer 2 networks.........................................................................................................43 View vPCs assigned to VLANs for Disjoint Layer 2 networks.......................................................................................45 Remove vPCs from