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Dell EMC VxRail Multirack Deployment Guide
vSAN witness appliance added as host to data center sfo01-w01dc
Configure vSAN witness appliance routing
For the vSAN witness appliance, configure a static route to use the vSAN VMkernel interface to reach the
VxRail management VMkernel in Rack 1 and Rack 2 in the primary data center.
1. Open an SSH session to the vSAN Witness Appliance,
sfo03w01vsanw01
.
2. Use the
esxcli network ip route ipv4 add command
to specific a static route to the
VxRail management network (
172.16.31.0/24
) using the next hop address for second data center
vSAN network (
172.17.33.0/24
).
[root@sfo03w01vsanw01:~]
esxcli network ip route ipv4 add -n
172.16.31.0/24 -g 172.17.33.253
3. Use the
vmkping
command to verify reachability from the vSAN Witness Appliance vmk1 interface to
the management IP address for the first VxRail node.
[root@sfo03w01vsanw01:~]
vmkping -I vmk1 172.16.31.101
PING 172.16.31.101 (172.16.31.101): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.16.31.101: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=0.641 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.31.101: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=0.807 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.31.101: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=0.747 ms
--- 172.16.31.101 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.641/0.732/0.807 ms