11 | vCenter Planning Guide
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VxRail 3.5 and vSphere 6.0, version details can be found in
VxRail Appliance Software 3.5 Release
Notes
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VxRail 4.0.x and vSphere 6.0, version details can be found in
VxRail Appliance Software 4.0.x Release
Notes
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VxRail 4.5.x and vSphere 6.5, version details can be found in
VxRail Appliance Software 4.5.x Release
Notes
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VxRail 4.7.x and vSphere 6.7, version details can be found in
VxRail Appliance Software 4.7.x Release
Notes
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Customer provides the vCenter Server license.
If you want VxRail to join a
Customer Supplied vCenter
Server
, you will need to:
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Know the
Customer Supplied vCenter
Server
FQDN.
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Know whether your
Customer Supplied vCenter
Server
has an embedded or non-embedded Platform
Services Controller. If the PSC is non-embedded, you will need the PSC FQDN.
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Know the
Customer Existing
Single Sign-On domain (SSO) (for example,
vsphere.local
)
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Create a VxRail management user and password for this VxRail cluster on the
Customer Supplied vCenter
Server
. This user must be:
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Created with no permissions
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Created with no roles assigned to it
Note that if a previous VxRail Cluster has been deployed on the Customer Supplied vCenter Server, the VxRail
Management User can be re-used if the customer so chooses.
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Create or select a datacenter on the
Customer Supplied vCenter
Server
for the VxRail Cluster to join.
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Specify the name of the cluster that will be created by VxRail in the selected datacenter when the cluster is
built. This will also be the name of the distributed switch. This name must be unique and not used
anywhere in the datacenter on the
Customer Supplied vCenter
Server
.
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Verify the customer DNS server can resolve all VxRail ESXi hostnames before deployment.
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(Optional) Create a VxRail non-admin user and password for VxRail on the
Customer Supplied vCenter
Server
. The following will be done by your Dell EMC Representative:
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Create two new roles, VxRail Initial Global and VxRail Datacenter Global.
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Assign each of these roles to the new VxRail admin user.
Starting with VxRail 4.5.200, it is possible to deploy a
Customer Supplied vCenter Server
on an
existing VxRail Cluster, even the one it is managing, provided that stretched clusters are not part
of the deployment. Note that this still requires the customer provide a vCenter Server license.
Please note this still requires a customer provide a vCenter Server license
