# Environment Preparations

#### Software Environment

Table 1 Software versions
Component | Version
--- | ---
VMware ESXi | 6.5.0
VMware vCenter Server Appliance | 6.5.0
VMware NSX Manager | 6.4.3
VMware vSphere Replication | 6.5.1
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager | 6.5.1

#### Network Environment

In the following part, IP addresses and the number of BMS ports and are examples only.

Assume that eight ports are configured for the provisioned BMS, two for accessing the VPC network and six for configuring the QinQ network. vmnic0 and vmnic1 are two ports for connecting to the VPC network. The two ports will become uplinks of vSwitch0 by default after being provisioned and enabled on the BMS.

Take a typical VMware architecture as an example. Three BMSs are used for deploying management and service VMs. Each server has eight physical network ports configured and each BMS connects to a VPC subnet. You need to plan and configure the network planes used for management, vmotion, vSAN, and VXLAN on the NICs. The following tables provide an example for the planing and configurations.

Table 2 Network plane planning
Type | Name | IP Address Segment | Gateway | Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
VPC subnet | esx-primary | 192.168.0.0/24 | 192.168.0.1 | BMS primary NIC
User-planned VLAN | DPortGroup-mgmt | 11.11.11.0/24 | 11.11.11.1 | Management and vMotion plane
DPortGroup-vxlan | 11.11.13.0/24 | 11.11.13.1 | vxlan
DPortGroup-vsan | 11.11.12.0/24 | 11.11.12.1 | vSAN plane
hb-edge-internal | 11.11.8.0/24 | 11.11.8.1 | Service plane

The following table lists the vNICs of the ESXi BMS.

Table 3 vNICs
Network | IP Address | vSwitch uplink
--- | --- | ---
esx-primary | 192.168.0.10 | vmnic0/vmnic1
DPortGroup-mgmt | 11.11.11.101 | vmnic2/vmnic3
DPortGroup-vxlan | 11.11.13.101 | vmnic4/vmnic5
DPortGroup-vsan | 11.11.12.101 | vmnic6/vmnic7

The following table lists the IP addresses of the management components connected to the DPortGroup-mgmt network.

Table 4 IP addresses of components
Component | IP Address | Domain Name
--- | --- | ---
vCenter Server | 11.11.11.3 | Optional
NSX manager | 11.11.11.4 | -
NSX controller | 11.11.11.200 11.11.11.201 11.11.11.202 | -
DNS/NTP | 11.11.11.6 | -
Nsx-edge | 11.11.11.30 | -
Jump VM | 11.11.11.2 | -

- The VPC name, subnet, and gateway in Table 2 are defined and input on the console by the tenant during VM creation.
- You can plan the IP addresses of the vNICs in Table 3.
- You can plan and allocate the IP addresses in Table 4.

Parent topic: VMware on BMS