Hi All,
I have inherited a cluster of ESXi servers running on rack mount servers. These servers have plenty of network adapters free in them (1Gb NICs).
If I was to do some re-arranging of the NICs and introduce FT (for a couple of critical VMs) could I:
- Dedicate a 1Gb NIC for vMotion
- Dedicate a 1Gb NIC for Fault Tolerance
What I'm trying to get at is, is 1Gb NICs for each of these traffic types considered reasonable? I dont have 10Gb NICs to play with.
Think from the design point to view --- if you keep 1 NIC to vmotion -- what if the NIC fails? Keep two NIC's and configure them as multi nic vmotion (I hope you are running esxi 5.x or higher).
For FT you can put 1 NIC that should be fine -- as this feature will come into play when the entire Host is down.
Hello lvaibhavtlvaibhavt,
I had a server which has 8 NIC ports. As your point what i re-arrange the port for most effective?
I already setup 2 port and team for Management Network, does it the best or not?
Any help is appreciated,
2 ports for management is very valid. Keep 2 nics for vm network. 2 nics for vmotion and 1 for FT.
Keep the last one handy.
Hello lvaibhavt,
I used ESXi 5.5, as i know that the 5.5 version was eliminated the Console service port. So i plan use Management port and vMotion is on one as attached file, does it valid or not?
If i have to separate port for vMotion and FT, do i need to assign IP address for each port?
Any help is appreciated,
Best regards,
there are only two kinds of network traffic --- VM Traffic and ESXi (VMkernel) traffic. When you create a new VMkernel traffic you have to specify an IP everytime.
so you can keep vmotion and Ft on the same IP however I would recommend to seperate them.
Hello,
Would you recommended the VM traffic need to Teaming port or not?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Ivaibhavt
Thanks for the response, its much appreciated.
Yes I have enough NICs to provide redundancy across all my uplinks, so that will be a given.
I was more interested in knowing whether a dedicated 1Gb NIC for vMotion and a dedicated 1Gb NIC for FT is supported configuration.
Dryv