Assign an individual ethernet NIC to a VM

[krisssjsu]

Hi all,

Wishing you a new year filled with joy and happiness.

I have just installed ESX 4.1.0 and vsphere 4.1.0.

I have a couple of extra NIC cards available in the ESX server. I would like to assign them to individual VM's.

I have configured the virtual switch as "vswitch0" and all the extra NIC cards show up on this switch. But i could not find a way to permanently assign a NIC card to a particular VM.

I have 3 NIC cards and i plan to have 3 VM's.

Can someone please guide me.

Thanks,

Krishna

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

One option is to create 3 virtual machine port groups and assign each of the VM's to one of them. In the port group's configuration, set one NIC to "Active" and the other two to "Standby". This way each VM uses its dedicated NIC and - in case of a failure - fails over to one of the others.

André

[idle-jam]

André's is good if the 3 VMs are connected to the same network that can allow you to failover. if the 3 VM has uplink to different network then it would be creating portgroup per vmnic per virtual machine.

[krisssjsu]

Appreciate your help guys....

[idle-jam]

No Problem!, and good luck with your virtualization journey.