Hi AndyKB,
I am not sure how segregated is your network & what exactly you are trying to acheive, though maybe VLANs & network teaming are two things you want to investigate. As you can have multiple adapters teamed together in ESX that will definetly give you a better redundancy and throughput.
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Eiad Al-Aqqad
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Hi AndyKB,
I am not sure how segregated is your network & what exactly you are trying to acheive, though maybe VLANs & network teaming are two things you want to investigate. As you can have multiple adapters teamed together in ESX that will definetly give you a better redundancy and throughput.
Please reward points if this help.
Regards,
Eiad Al-Aqqad
Technology Consultant @ VMware
b: http://www.VirtualizationTeam.com
If you had some additional physical NICs on the server, you could team them together into your storage vSwitch1. However, that only increases the aggregate throughput value - no single transfer will utilize all of the NICs simultaneously.
It is a good idea to use multiple NICs for your storage simply from a failure standpoint. If your vmnic1 failed all of your storage will be inaccessible.
Okay its been a while as I had NIC issues that almost cost my sanity, thats now sorted and I have got what I wanted setup and running, I have teamed/trunked 4 nic ports on my freenas box and teamed 2 nic ports on the ESXi box, all is good again :smileygrin:
Also now mastered vlans now the bloody nics are stable
Oh when its good its good, but the bad days hurt :smileysilly: