Host IP Address

[Deland02]

I have a question on my hosts, we have various different IP ranges & recently the network has just been re-designed adding more ranges. Two of which are an IP range for management & one for Production.

Our hosts used to be on the production network but now they have been put on the management range. What are peoples views on this? should the host IP be management or in production?

[a_p_]

It actually depends on how you handle this in your company. The important thing is that the Management Network is in a subnet which cannot accidentally be used by e.g. users/clients (e.g. duplicate IP addresses).

André

[aravinds3107]

Having dedicated Management network is good..

[zXi_Gamer]

should the host IP be management or in production?

It is not recommended, but you can have provided you have additional features like VLAN, disable MAC address changes,  forged transmits, disable promiscuous mode for the management network

[Deland02]

Yeh we are using vlans & I have everything disabled

[0v3rc10ck3d]

Yes, separate management is fine, however the hosts will still need access vCenter and domain controller / dns servers so you will need to be able to talk between subnets / vlans

Servers VLAN 4

ESX Management VLAN 5

Users VLAN 6

VLAN 4 can talk to VLAN 5,6

VLAN 6 can talk to VLAN 4

VLAN 5 can talk to VLAN 4

VLAN 5/6 can not talk to eachother.

Something like that. Or simliar using subnets.