High Availability/redundancy

[jcorbin121]

What is the recommended high availability solution for 2 switches(Cisco 2960G), 4 ESX servers

and 8 NIC's each server. I need to reserve in each server:

1 port for admin console

1 port for vMotion

2 ports for storage (NFS)

So the other 4 ports are available for etherchannel trunk to let the VM's

talk across.

The 2 rack switches will be connected to a pair of Cisco 4507's for the core redundancy.

Thanks in advance

John

[thenexus6]

Possible HA solutions are very well described in tr3428: NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices.

Don't forget to reconfigure cisco switches for RSTP or Rapid-PVST.

Also I don't see a good reason for using separate single ports for vMotion and admin console: you have VLANs so use 4 ports (2x2) for VMs and 4 ports (2x2 again) for managementvmotionstorage

[TimPhillips]

Hi!

On my experience StarWind and Lefthand are pretty reliable solutions. To get knowledge about them just follow the links:

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/white-papers

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ch/de/sm/WF02a/12169-304616-3930449.html

[AndreTheGiant]

See also:

Andre

[kac2]

take a look at my blog post. use the 2nd image down, except take out the Fault Tolerance NICs in your case. Make sure your 2960Gs are stacked or have an etherchannel trunk between them.

http://kendrickcoleman.no-ip.org/index.php/Tech-Blog/vsphere-host-nic-configuration.html