Hello, my name is Curt. I'm a senior principal engineer working with the Dell GSE Support Team.
This video will be demonstrating how to configure a Microsoft HCI Hyper Converged
Network using QLogic network adapters, as defined in the Dell reference guide ‘Network
Integration and Host Network Configuration Options’ deployment guide. This guide is
referenced in the ‘Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies’ deployment guide.
HCI hyper-converged Networks channel all management and storage network communication
over the same network hardware components. Our demo coming up will include the configuration
of a Switch Enabled Team based on two QLogic 25 gigabit fastlink adapters.
Three virtual network adapters will be created. One for our host public management network and two
for our storage RDMA network communication. We're doing the configuration using a PowerShell script
taken from the deployment guide mentioned at the beginning of our video. When using
the downloaded PDF version of that guide this configuration information can be found in pages
seven through nine. Let's go ahead and take a look at our script. The first portion of the script
creates variables that are referenced later in the script. This variable information is based on the
deployment environment and naming preferences of the organization. Items like the VM switch name,
virtual adapter names, IP information, VLAN tagging information, need to be
defined in the variable section of the script for both the management and storage networks.
Once all the variable information has been declared script processing begins
creating and configuring objects making up the converged network.
The new team is configured, the management network adapter is created, and the network IP and
VLAN information is being assigned to the newly created adapter. The last section of the script
creates and configures the storage networking. Two virtual adapters are created,
IP information and VLAN information is assigned to the new networks.
Keep in mind all the network traffic will be running over the three virtual adapters on the two
QLogic adapters in the SET team. Once again this script example is found in the deployment guide
highlighted at the beginning of the video. I've plugged in the IP values and VLAN information for
my lab environment. The principal framework for the script was taken from the deployment guide.
Let's start by viewing the adapters that we're going to be using,
using the command ‘get-netadapter’. We have a list of QLogic adapters here,
we're going to be using the ones in Slot 4 listed for Port 1 and Port 2 off of those slots,
and let's go ahead and run the script.
So simply using the name ‘deployment_script’ I'm going to go ahead and kick that off.
We're seeing the progress, this takes less than a minute to run,
and we're almost finished,
and there it is, we're done. So, at this point let's take a look, confirm
that we see the objects, objects we wanted to create here. Here is our SET team, ‘S2DSwitch’
and as you recall we were also creating three network adapters so let's re-run
that command ‘get-netadapter’.
And sure enough, we're seeing the adapter for our ‘Management’ network, vEthernet,
and we're seeing the two virtual adapters for our storage network ‘Storage1’ and ‘Storage2’.
Now as a little bonus I'm going to show you how we can removeour
created objects here, our virtual switch.
Now we have to define the name of the virtual switch we created,
and I agree to all there.
Just want to demonstrate how simple it is to reverse this process. So once again let's
take a look and at this point we shouldn't see the virtual switch and we don't, and
let's see if those virtual adapters are also gone,
and yes they are. We're back to where we began as far as our adapters are concerned.
Okay that concludes our video on configuring QLogic network adapters for a Dell hyper-converged
infrastructure deployment. Thank you for watching.