Dell Networking and NSX Data Center with Fc430s and Vsan
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Dell EMC Validated System for Virtualization - NSX Reference Architecture A step-by-step VMware NSX deployment on a leaf-spine data center network with FC430 compute nodes and VSAN storage. Dell Networking Solutions Engineering November 2016 Revisions Date Revision Description Authors November 2016 1.0 Initial Release Jim Slaughter, Curtis Bunch THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Copyright © 2016 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell and the Dell EMC logo are trademarks of Dell Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. 2 Dell EMC Validated System for Virtualization - NSX Reference Architecture | Version 1.0 Table of contents Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.1 Validated System for Virtualization ..................................................................................................................... 8 1.1.1 Addressing the need for flexibility ....................................................................................................................... 8 1.1.2 Differentiated approach addresses challenges and limitations .......................................................................... 9 1.2 VMware NSX ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 1.3 The VXLAN protocol ......................................................................................................................................... 10 2 Hardware overview ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 2.1 Dell PowerEdge FX2s enclosure and supported modules ............................................................................... 12 2.1.1 PowerEdge FC430 server ................................................................................................................................ 13 2.1.2 PowerEdge FD332 storage sled ....................................................................................................................... 13 2.1.3 PowerEdge FN410S I/O module ...................................................................................................................... 14 2.2 PowerEdge R630 server .................................................................................................................................. 14 2.3 Z9100-ON ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 2.4 S4048-ON ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 2.5 S3048-ON ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 3 Topology ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 3.1 Servers ............................................................................................................................................................. 16 3.2 Production network ........................................................................................................................................... 16 3.2.1 Physical network (underlay) ............................................................................................................................. 17 3.2.2 NSX virtual network (overlay) ........................................................................................................................... 18 3.2.3 Combined physical and virtual networks .......................................................................................................... 19 3.3 Management network ....................................................................................................................................... 20 4 Network connections .................................................................................................................................................. 21 4.1 Production network connections ....................................................................................................................... 21 4.1.1 Management cluster ......................................................................................................................................... 21 4.1.2 Compute cluster................................................................................................................................................ 21 4.1.3 Edge cluster ...................................................................................................................................................... 22 4.2 Management network connections ................................................................................................................... 23 4.2.1 Management and edge clusters ....................................................................................................................... 23 4.2.2 Compute cluster................................................................................................................................................ 24 3 Dell EMC Validated System for Virtualization - NSX Reference Architecture | Version 1.0 5 Spine and leaf topology .............................................................................................................................................. 25 5.1 Routing protocol selection ................................................................................................................................ 25 5.2 BGP ASN configuration .................................................................................................................................... 26 5.3 BGP fast fall-over.............................................................................................................................................. 26 5.4 IP Address Management .................................................................................................................................. 27 5.4.1 Loopback addresses ........................................................................................................................................ 27 5.4.2 Point-to-point addresses ................................................................................................................................... 28 5.4.3 VLANs and IP addressing ................................................................................................................................ 30 5.5 VRRP ................................................................................................................................................................ 30 5.6 ECMP ............................................................................................................................................................... 31 5.7 VLT ................................................................................................................................................................... 31 5.8 Uplink Failure Detection ................................................................................................................................... 32 6 Configure physical switches ....................................................................................................................................... 33 6.1 Factory default settings .................................................................................................................................... 33 6.2 FN410S switch configuration ............................................................................................................................ 34 6.3 S4048-ON leaf switch configuration ................................................................................................................. 38 6.3.1 S4048-ON Edge configuration .......................................................................................................................... 43 6.4 Z9100-ON spine switch configuration............................................................................................................... 45 6.5 S3048-ON management switch configuration .................................................................................................. 48 6.6 Verify switch configuration ................................................................................................................................ 48 6.6.1 Z9100-ON Spine Switch ................................................................................................................................... 48 6.6.2 S4048-ON Leaf Switch ....................................................................................................................................