building vsphere cluster with 10Gb ethernet

dirkidgs · ‎09-10-2014

Hello all,

i am looking for some best practices information. i building a 4 host cluster (esxi 5.5) using 4 x DELL M620 blade servers (M1000e chassis)

I have 2 x 10Gbe ether adapters for each blade.

How do most people configure the networking with this type of setup? I am connecting to iSCSI storage (IBM V7000)

I was thinking

1 vswitch for vmnet/mgmt/vmotion

2nd vswitch for iscsi

is this optimal? should i break down the 10Gb into smaller segments?

thanks in advance

JPM300 · ‎09-10-2014

Hey dirkidgs,

There is many ways you can chop up the 10GB NIC, Kendrick does a great job of putting out some design options for you

You may also want to look into VDS and the new NIOC controls as you can now control which traffic gets how much throughput with user based settings.

I hope this has helped.