Hi,
I am currently configuring a new ESXi 4.1 environment. I have 4 nic's on each host. I have seen alot of different discussions regarding separation of vmotion/management. However I do not think this is ideal with the current nic setup because should I choose to use 2 nics for management and management redundancy.
This is why I believe that, I separate the 4 NICs on two different switches and on each of them I create two trunks(or etherchannel for cisco) while both of these trunks include 50% of the NICs for one host. Should I choose to spend 2 NICs on management(one for each switch) I will no longer have the ability to trunk/etherchannel from the switch and will therefore lose both redundancy on that particular switch and the extra bandwidth I get by trunking two interfaces.
Any ideas on this matter?
/Kris