2-N0de-ROBO votion

[mutthu]

I am following the link below on vSAN 2. It is using the back-to-back direct connection for vmotion and vSAN in the design.  I am wondering whether I can use our physical switches for vMotion, because I was to perform a cross-site vMotion.

vSAN 2 Node Guide | VMware

[daphnissov]

You'll have to cable and configure two separate, additional ports on each host, but yes you should be able to do that.

[Dinol]

A Hyper-V virtual switch in external mode allows communications between virtual adapters connected to virtual machines and the management operating system. It uses single or teamed physical adapters to connect to a physical switch, thereby allowing communications with other systems  garageband

[TheBobkin]

Hello mutthu​,

While this doesn't use a switch for the inter-node vSAN traffic, yes you can of course connect a switch to the nodes for other connections outside of the cluster (or even for the inter-node communication but this wouldn't be beneficial other than for switch-logic on failover etc.).

Bob