Hi,
If you're planning to use the NAS as shared ESXi storage it has to be available to all ESXi hosts, the vSphere client is just a management tool so it can be used on any client with access to the vCenter.
If it's possible get an additional physical switch so you can connect all NIC0 (management/NAS) to it and all NIC1 to the physical switch for LAN (and NAS?) traffic.
So with the two switches, would the second NIC be configured through the ESXi interface with an IP address on the local network (NIC1) side as well?
Switch 1 (NAS, Management) NIC0 | Device | Switch 2 (LAN) NIC1 |
---|---|---|
192.168.0.50 | VC | (N/A) |
192.168.0.51 | ESXi Host 1 | 192.168.1.51 |
192.168.0.52 | ESXi Host 2 | 192.168.1.52 |
192.168.0.75 | NAS | 192.168.1.75 |
Switch 1 (NAS, Management) NIC0 | Device | Switch 2 (LAN) NIC1 |
---|---|---|
192.168.0.50 | VC | (N/A) |
192.168.0.51 | ESXi Host 1 | Connected to switch only, no IP assigned in ESXi? |
192.168.0.52 | ESXi Host 2 | Connected to switch only, no IP assigned in ESXi? |
192.168.0.75 | NAS | Not connected |
If the NAS will be used only as a datastore, I'd connect NAS NIC1 to Switch 1 and add both adresses to the hosts. That way you'll get some redundancy if one if the NAS NICs fail.