
28 ESXi Deployment Guide
ESXi and vCenter Deployment
Guidelines for Deploying ESXi
Before deploying ESXi:
• Determine the licensing mode that best suits the deployment
environment and design the licensing infrastructure accordingly.
• Determine the kind of storage (local SCSI/SAS/SATA, iSCSI, or Fibre
Channel SAN) for hosting VMs that suits the deployment environment
and design your storage infrastructure accordingly.
• Determine the number of LUNs, size of the LUNs, RAID level of
the LUNs, and the number of storage groups.
• Determine the number of VMs that run on ESXi and their
corresponding workloads.
• Determine the resource requirements for the VMs, such as the processor
requirements, memory size, and networking. For articles on performance
and sizing, see
vmware.com/support/pubs
.
• Determine the required network information such as IP addresses,
network masks, and gateway addresses.
• Determine the hosts that are a part of the DRS or the HA cluster and
allocate shared storage accordingly.
• Determine the appropriate networking configuration for management,
VMs, and iSCSI (optional). You can use Virtual Local Area Networks
(VLANs) to isolate the traffic efficiently.
Best Practices Checklist for Deployment
1
Rack and connect your PowerEdge system according to your system
documentation.
2
Turn off your system and follow the steps below:
a
Connect your ESXi management network to the first onboard
network adapter.
b
Connect your VM network to the second onboard network adapter.
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