I know your excited to get right down to the meat of the installtion, but there is some housekeeping that we need to get out of the way first. There are a number of pre-requisites that we need to ensure exist in the environment first.
Pre-requisites
- A properly configured vCenter Server with at least one cluster. (Ideally (2) clusters – (1) Management Cluster & 1(1) Cluster for everything else.)
- Cluster should have at least (2) hosts. (More would be better. Memory will be important)
- You will need to be using Distributed Virtual Switches (DvSwitch) NOT Standard vSwitches.
- If you are NOT running vSphere 5.5 you will need to have your physical switches configured for Multicast. (Unicast requires vSphere 5.5)
- You will need a vLAN on your physical network that you can utilize for VXLAN.
To give you an idea below is the configuration for the “MoaC” lab that I will be working in.
MoaC Configuration
- vCenter 5.5 U2b
- (3) Clusters
- Management Cluster with (2) vSphere ESXi 5.5 U2 Hosts
- 32GB Memory
- Cluster only DvSwitch using NIC Teaming
- Services Cluster with (4) vSphere ESXi 5.5 U2 Hosts
- 196GB Memory
- Cluster only DvSwitch using LAG.
- Desktop Cluster with (2) vSphere ESXi 5.5 U2 Hosts
- 112GB Memory
- Cluster only DvSwitch using LAG.
- Management Cluster with (2) vSphere ESXi 5.5 U2 Hosts
- Physical vLAN trunked to all vSphere hosts in all clusters.