Page 3 - Contents
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 3 Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................... 4 Active Infrastructure ..................................................................
Page 6 - iSCSI-Only Network Diagram
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 6 maintain their own identities and act as two independent switches that work together, so they must be configured and managed separately. Downlinks to the I/O aggregators must be configured as LACP-enabled LAGs. LACP m...
Page 7 - LAN-Only Network Diagram; Legend
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 7 In a LAN-only configuration, the LAN distribution switches have only four types of ports: Out-of-band management Stacking ports Downlinks to the I/O aggregator in the M1000e chassis Uplinks to the routed netwo...
Page 8 - Pre-Requisites Introduction; Top of Rack Switch Configuration
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 8 Network Partitioning (NPAR) Network or NIC partitioning (NPAR) divides a network adapter into multiple independent partitions. In the case of the Broadcom 57810 CNA, these partitions can each support concurrent networ...
Page 9 - This host cannot be; Deploy Active System Manager
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 9 The Chassis Management Controllers (CMCs) within the M1000e blade environment are the main access point to the management of the blade chassis, I/O Modules, and servers. It is a Dell best practice to configure and con...
Page 10 - Increased bandwidth; Infrastructure Setup Using Active System
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 10 Keep in mind IQN names have a specified format and it is recommended to maintain this format to avoid issues when customizing your iSCSI initiators in ESXi. Keep a record of the IQN names assigned to each of the shar...
Page 11 - Create Networks and Identity Pools; VLAN Usage and Fabrics; iSCSI Storage; NOTE
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 11 example for heartbeat or vMotion). Finally, Active System Manager will configure the I/O Module server facing ports to provide access to the necessary VLANs required by the ESXi host. Create Networks and Identity Poo...
Page 13 - Create Deployment Template
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 13 Create Deployment Template Before moving forward with configuration of the chassis, this section describes creating the Deployment Template for the ESXi hosts. This template will specify the various settings required...
Page 14 - It is; not
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 14 configuration in the OS. If this scenario was executing an iSCSI boot use case, specifying the Native VLAN would be a requirement. The bandwidth minimum and maximum in this case will both be set to 10Gb since this po...
Page 15 - Mapping Order Example without Redundancy
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 15 physical ports of the device. This allows you to distribute the load of these devices across both of your I/O Modules. On the right side of the diagram you can see how the virtual NICs in Active System Manager map to...
Page 16 - Configure Chassis
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 16 Mapping Order Example with Redundancy Figure 5. Going forward with Deployment Template configuration, you will set the “OS Boot” type to “SD Card”. This assumes you have ordered your server from Dell with ESXi pre-in...
Page 17 - Deploy Servers
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 17 Part of the chassis configuration process is to bring all of the firmware in the devices in the chassis to a baseline level. The wizard will display the firmware which will be updated on each device. You must select ...
Page 18 - Cluster Setup and Configuration; Configure ESX Management Network
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 18 on. Select one or more servers you wish to deploy to under the category of “Manual Server Selection”, then complete the wizard to start deployment. The deployment of servers should take several minutes to complete. Y...
Page 21 - Configure Redundant Hypervisor Management Network
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 21 Configure Redundant Hypervisor Management Network Upon initial setup of the host, vmnic2 was selected as the management NIC, this corresponds to the B1 fabric mezzanine card port 1 partition 1 of the CNA. Another NIC...
Page 23 - Add Shared Storage
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 23 adapter. Since an iSCSI IQN was from the Active System Manager pool, it is recommended to enter the IQN assigned by Active System Manager for consistency, but you may use a different IQN if you wish. Note that VMware...
Page 24 - Configure Remaining vMotion and Virtual Machine Networks; vmnicX; Using A Host Profile
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 24 highlighted, click the link to go to “Properties”. Click the “Manage Paths” button to go to the multi-pathing settings for this shared volume. By default the volume will be set to a “Fixed” multi-pathing configuratio...
Page 25 - Glossary; Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP); - provides a method to control the bundling of several
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 25 Once the settings are capture in the Host Profile, this profile can be applied to the other hosts in the cluster. Keep in mind that some settings are still host-specific and you will be prompted to configure these se...
Page 26 - Native VLAN –
Use Case Study: Using Active System For VMware Cluster Environment Configuration 26 Native VLAN – is an ASM Deployment Template term. When a Native VLAN is selected in an ASM Deployment Template, that VLAN ID is designated as an untagged VLAN on the server facing port of the blade I/O module. Virtua...
