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sunny101
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‎09-10-2015 08:06 AM
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NIC Teaming

I am trying to put together a standard for NIC teaming on DL380 G8 server. I have 10 NIC adopters on each server and I am using 2 for Management, 2 for vMotion and 6 for guest traffic. Is it a best practice to create NIC team of 6 ports for guest traffic? If so, does it help in gaining additional bandwidth? Please help

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a_p_
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‎09-10-2015 08:33 AM
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The best practice depends upon your physical network capabilities (e.g. VLAN support) and your requirements. Your current configuration should work fine, and the VMs should be distributed on the 6 VM Network NICs (you can check this using e.g. esxtop from the command line).

Depending on the physical network, you may - unless you already do so - consider to setup Multi-NIC-vMotion which will utilize both NICs and cut migration times into half.

André

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a_p_
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‎09-10-2015 08:33 AM
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The best practice depends upon your physical network capabilities (e.g. VLAN support) and your requirements. Your current configuration should work fine, and the VMs should be distributed on the 6 VM Network NICs (you can check this using e.g. esxtop from the command line).

Depending on the physical network, you may - unless you already do so - consider to setup Multi-NIC-vMotion which will utilize both NICs and cut migration times into half.

André

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