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Dell EMC VxRail Multirack Deployment Guide
8.1
Deploying VMware vSAN stretched clusters
This section covers the values that are used to deploy vSAN stretched clusters in the environment that is
configured in this Deployment Guide.
Note:
For step-by-step instructions on deploying the vSAN witness appliance, see
Deploying a
vSAN Witness
Appliance
.
Deploy the vSAN witness appliance
The vSAN witness appliance is used. Figure 18 shows the vSAN witness appliance
sfo03w01vsanw01
is
deployed in the secondary data center to an existing VMware cluster,
lax01-m01-mgmt01
.
vSAN witness appliance
Table 4 shows the values that are used during the vSAN witness appliance deployment.
vSAN witness appliance configuration details
VLAN
Network label
IP address
Purpose
1731
Management Network
172.17.31.201/24
ESXi management VMkernel
1733
witnessPg
172.17.33.201/24
vSAN VMkernel
Once deployed
sfo03w01vsan01
is then added to the vCenter data center hosting the exiting VxRail cluster.
Figure 19 shows the appliance after it is added to the sfo01-w01dc data center object using the Management
Network IP address. The icon for a vSAN witness appliance is blue, which represents that it is an imbedded
ESXi appliance and not a physical server.