
3 Network Virtualization with Dell Infrastructure and VMware NSX | Version 1.2
Table of contents
Revisions ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Overview...................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2 NSX Consumption Models with Dell Networking ................................................................................................................ 5
2.1 Dell Infrastructure with VMware NSX-vSphere (Solution 1) .................................................................................... 5
2.2 Dell Infrastructure with VMware NSX-MH (Solution 2) ............................................................................................ 5
3 Dell Open Networking Differentiators ................................................................................................................................... 6
4 VMware vSphere-only NSX Component Definitions .......................................................................................................... 7
5 Network Virtualization with VMware NSX ............................................................................................................................. 9
5.1 NSX Component Interaction ....................................................................................................................................... 11
5.2 Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, and Multicast Traffic (BUM) ................................................................................... 14
6 A Dell End-to-End Converged Infrastructure for VMware NSX ...................................................................................... 16
6.1 Converged Underlay Infrastructure with DCB and iSCSI ....................................................................................... 16
6.2 Management, Edge, and Compute Clusters and VDS ............................................................................................ 19
6.3 Infrastructure VLANs ..................................................................................................................................................... 23
7 Dell Network Design Options for VMware NSX ................................................................................................................. 29
8 Additional Network Design and Scaling Considerations .................................................................................................. 32
9 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................................................ 33
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