IP

[mdamda]

Hi everyone,

I am using HP blade servers (HP Enclosure C7000). I have a Full Height Server(BL 660C), I am using Virtual Connect and i have two interconnect bays Bay1 and Bay2 for networking.(both going to trunk ports of the switch and i am using distributed switch)

When installing ESXi 5.5 should i just select just one network card and give the management IP and deselect other 3 network cards or all the four network cards should be connected.

I am new to vmware so please guide me.

[rcporto]

By default when you install vSphere ESXi in a host, a virtual switch is create with name vSwitch0 and the physical network adapter that you select when are configuring the Management IP is just the physical adapter that will be part (the uplink) of the virtual switch.

So, after configure the management IP and connect to the vSphere ESXi using the vSphere Client you can add the other three (or at least one more for redundancy purpose) physical adapter to the same virtual switch.

Take a look here for how to add the uplink to an existign vSwitch: Add Uplink Adapters

[mdamda]

The bottom line is make sure all your NICs are connected.

I will give ip to one of the NIC( i.e Magament IP) and make sure other 3 NICS are also connected.

[JinuV]

Hi,

    Please let know how many network adapters you are going to assign to esxi,if you use the same network for multiple vlan you have add multi network option in VC and then enable the truck port on network switch side. if you planned to use single vlan in esxi you can create normal network in Virtual connect(VC).Please be remind vlan tag need to enable in esxi .