HPE EZMERAL CONTAINER PLATFORM 5.2 AND HPE EZMERAL DATA FABRIC ON HPE DL SERVERS

# Physical Environment Configuration

This section outlines the steps to be performed to configure the physical environment used in this solution

# Switching and cabling

Figure 7 describes the cabling configuration of nineteen (19) HPE ProLiant DL Gen10 Servers as well as the HPE Aruba 8325-32C BF switches and Aruba VSX, that takes advantage of the ArubaOS-CX modern architecture, and delivers best in class high availability within the context of this solution.

Figure 7. Frame and switch cabling within the solution

Table 5 explains the cabling of the Virtual Connect interconnect modules to the HPE Aruba 8325-32C switching.

# Table 5 Network used in this solution

Network Name Type VLAN Number Purpose Requested Bandwidth (Gb) Maximum Bandwidth (Gb)
DataCenter_Network Ethernet 2193 Production Application, authentication and other user networks 2.5 100
Management_Network Ethernet 1193 iLO, ESXi management and other management networks 2.5 100
iSCSI_Network (optional) Ethernet 3193 HPE Nimble Storage Arrays Connectivity 2.5 100

# Physical cabling

Table 6 represents mapping of source ports to ports on the HPE Aruba 8325-32C switches.

Table 6. HPE Aruba port map

Uplink Set DL Source Switch Destination
Datacenter_Network Enclosure 1 Port Q3 Interface1/1/1
Enclosure 1 Port Q4 Interface1/1/2
Enclosure 2 Port Q3 Interface1/1/3
Enclosure 2 Port Q4 Interface1/1/4

Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends that the installation user logs on to the switch, post-configuration and provide a description for each of these ports.

# Network definition

There are multiple networks defined at the switch layer in this solution:

  • Management Network -- This network facilitates the management of hardware and software interfaced by IT.

  • Data Center Network -- This network carries traffic from the overlay network used by the pods to external consumers of pod deployed services.

# Configure VLAN

This section details the steps required to configure a VLAN.

  1. To add these networks to the switch, logon to the switch console over SSH and run the following commands.
> sys

> vlan 1193 2193
  1. For each of these VLANs, perform the following steps.
> interface vlan-interface ####

> name VLAN Name per table above

> description Add text that describes the purpose of the VLAN

> quit

NOTE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise strongly recommends configuring a dummy VLAN on the switches and assign unused ports to that VLAN.

  1. The switches should be configured with a bridge aggregation group (BAGG) for the different links to the HPE DL Server connections. To configure the BAGG and ports as described in Table 5, run the following commands.
>  interface Bridge-Aggregation111

>  link-aggregation mode dynamic

>  description <FrameNameU30>-ICM

>  quit

>  interface range name <FrameNameU30>-ICM interface Bridge-Aggregation111

>  quit

>  interface range HundredGigE 1/1/1 to HundredGigE 1/1/2 HundredGigE 2/1/1 to HundredGigE 2/1/2

>  port link-aggregation group 111

>  quit

>  interface range name <FrameNameU30>-ICM

>  port link-type trunk

>  undo port trunk permit vlan 1

>  port trunk permit vlan 1193 2193

>  quit
  1. After the configuration of the switches is complete, save the state and apply it by typing save and follow the resulting prompts.

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