ESXi

hello all

I'm in a bit of a limbo here,

I'm planing to install two email gateways on ESXi and protect these with vMotion or svMotion, now these two boxes (one inbound and one Outbound) are configured wil be configured with two IPs, one Public IP and one Private IP.

On our VMware servers we have a spare Physical network port that I will use for this public network but my question is how would I protect this one in case I move it to a different host or when the vMotion kicks in?

note that all other VMware hosts have spare Physical network ports.

Thanks again,

Anyone?

i use VMware-vShield-Manager-5.0.2-791471 problem solved...

Hmm Thanks for the effort but that didnt answer my question.

Thanks anyway.

You better make a secondary mail server then shift one by one.

I think this is pretty simple. You can either create separate vSwitches deidated to "internal" and "external" each with one port group, or you can create multiple port groups within one vSwitch. Create the same port groups on all hosts that can run your guests. Then, assign the port groups to separate vNICs in your guest configurations. The port group labels will tell the hosts which network each vNIC is on when/if the guest moves. You can also do this more simply if you have virtual distributed switches.

Please let me know if i've completely misunderstood your question.