Configuring The System; Configuring The Hc380 System; Configuring The Network Switches - HP Hyper Converged 380 Installation Manual

Configuring the system

Configuring the HC380 system

This section describes how to complete the appliance configuration steps. Before you begin, ensure that
the switches and appliance nodes have been racked and cabled per the earlier instructions, and that you
have completed the preinstallation worksheets (on page 14).
Process overview:
Configuring the network switches (on page 32)
1.
Powering on all nodes (on page 33)
2.
Configuring a laptop or workstation to access the system (on page 33)
3.
Testing network connectivity (on page 34)
4.
(optional) Licensing and installing NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPUs (on page 34)
5.
Configuring the HC380 using OneView InstantOn
6.
Installing HC380 Management UI (on page 44)
7.

Configuring the network switches

The system uses the FlexLOM (1 or 10GbE interfaces) as well as additional 10GbE Interfaces (for
CloudSystem) for all network communication beyond the original deployment.
The switch configuration in your environment may vary. For a sample network switch configuration and
instructions on how to create the configuration, see "Appendix A: Network switch configuration (on page
85)."
General virtualization and VDI workload configurations
HC380 General virtualization or VDI solutions are supported on a flat/untagged network or a network with
tagged VLANs to segment iSCSI and vMotion traffic. The ESXi management network must always be an
untagged (pvid) network.
You may put the ESXi, vMotion, and storage networks on the same subnet, but Hewlett Packard
Enterprise recommends separate subnets or VLANs to isolate and manage the network traffic.
When using the HC380 General Virtualization or VDI solutions, the following networks and configurations
are used by the solution over the FlexLOM (1 or 10GbE) interface for each node:
•
ESXi Management Network (untagged, pvid network)
•
VMware vMotion Network (untagged or tagged network)
•
VSA iSCSI Storage network (untagged or tagged network)
•
IPv6 must be enabled for the VLANs used by the HC380
CloudSystem configuration
CloudSystem requires separate VLANs for each network. The ESXi management network must be
untagged for initial deployment and then migrated to a tagged network during the installation process. For
more information about migrating, see "Installing CloudSystem (on page 48)."
When using the CloudSystem solutions the following networks and configurations are used by the
solution over the FlexLOM, PCI Slot 2 and PCI Slot 3 (10GbE) interfaces for each node:
•
HC380 ESXi Management Network/Data Center Management Network (untagged pvid network)
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