Hardware Requirement and Prerequisite

The following are the hardware and prerequisite for deploying vSZ-D on ESXi 6.7

Hardware Requirement

  1. DELL Inc. PowerEdge R530
  2. ESXi Server License 6.7
  3. Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit
    5.0 Update
    Ethernet NIC
  4. Intel Ethernet
    5.0 Update
    XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+
  5. CPU minimum 4 cores
  6. vSphere ESXi Server 6.7 or later
  7. 1 or 2 vNICs
  8. 8 GB memory
  9. 128 GB Hard disk

Prerequisite

  • A hypervisor on ESXi to install vSZ-D. Recommended version is ESXi 6.7 and later.
  • Download the vSZ-D package (.OVA file) from Ruckus support .
  • The IP addresses, netmask, gateway, DNS, DHCP and NAT support for vSZ-D.
  • Before you power on vSZ-D, ensure that the networking is configured on ESXi.
  • Recommended to use static network addresses that are assigned to vSZ-D during setup.

Note: Due to different servers and NIC, the deployment procedure mentioned in this section is for reference.

Caution: Starting from R7.1.0, you can use SmartZone in Pure IPv6 Mode. However, the Data Plane patch function is not supported in this mode.

Parent topic: Deploy vSZ-D with 40GB NIC on ESXi Server