We are planning our vSphere4 install. We now have a Dell m1000, with 5 - m610s (half-height blades - 6 physical connections) and 3 - 710s (full height blades - 12 physical connections), and a Cisco 3130 switch on the back. This would give us 6 pnic connections to each blade. We will be running SC, iSCSI, NFS, Fault Tolerant, and 3 seperate vm networks (server lan, dmz, and a 3-tier). NFS will be 10GB. I would like to be as redundant as possible. We have 52 cpu licenses for Enterprise Plus.
What would be the best possible setups? Bonding 2pnics and creating several vlans? The Dell blade serves up internal connections between blades, as was explained to me by the Dell rep. This could serve Fault Tolerant and vmotion?
