Network planning

[ScottK74]

Here is my situation I have two data centers connected by dark fiber, I am looking to rework it and remain in best practice standards. I have 4 servers standalone on one side Hp dl385p g8 and I want to take advantage of 6 nics, they connect up to two Cisco 3750. The other side is an Hp blade chassis, but will be moving away from blades our environment is small. I have created two new Vlans one for management and one for vmotion, we do not use ft. I have a few Vlans that we use for servers and one for iscsi.  I  would like to use two nics for management and vmotion, two nics for iscsi, and two nics for vmtraffic. I am trying to keep the switch config simple, our network is pretty flat. Can I trunk the vlans for vmotion and for management? Should the iscsi vlan be port access only? Been trying to search but there are so many different ways to do this. I am not a Cisco guy and I am having trouble explaining to my network admin what I am trying to do.

[vmroyale]

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[JCMorrissey]

Hi,

Indeed no problems trunking the vlans for vmotion and mgmt. 

[orthohin]

The things is if you want to pass more than on VLAN through a port then you have to declare this port as a trunk..

Regards,
Milton

[TomHowarth]

There is no need to trunk your vMotion and Managment networks just configure these as standby.

how are your hosts connected to the physical network, as this will determine the bonding strategy?

Are they connected to a single switch or is each host connected to two switches,  if it is two switches do your have Nexus 7K or Cisco6500's in your network?

if you have Nexus7K or Cisco6500's do they have the necessary modules to be able to configure VPC (on Nexus) or VSS (on Cisco6500)?