
23 Network Virtualization with Dell Infrastructure and VMware NSX | Version 1.2
6.3 Infrastructure VLANs
Infrastructure VLANs are still utilized on the physical underlay for management, storage, vMotion, VXLAN
transport, and edge traffic. The type of network underlay design one chooses (L2, L3, or hybrid L2/L3) will
determine where these infrastructure VLANs need to span on the physical infrastructure. Regardless, once
these infrastructure VLANs are in place you will never have a need to configure additional VLANs on the
physical network again. These infrastructure VLANs must also be present on the corresponding VDS
switch. As an example, below in Figure 15 is the VDS port group configuration for the compute_vds VDS
switch which is utilized for the compute clusters Production Site A and Production Site B in Figure 10.
Figure 15 ‘compute_vds’ VDS switch
The infrastructure Port Groups/VLANs in the setup are as follows:
Table 1 Infrastructure Port Groups/VLANS
Multi-path iSCSI storage traffic (Port 1)
Multi-path iSCSI storage traffic (Port 2)
If we expand the Transport Compute port group’s VMkernel ports as shown in Figure 16, we see exactly
seven VMkernel interfaces or VTEPs with corresponding IP addresses for the seven servers we have in the
compute clusters as shown in Figure 10.
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