2 Physical NICS + 1 vswitch

[Felix001]

Hi,

I need to assign 2 physical NIC`s to 1 virtual switch. The problem also being that my management service console is also assigned to thei virtual switch.

Does anyone know the best way to do this ?

Thanks,

[MarekZdrojewski]

Hi there,

Please take a look at this VMware KB article under section "Solutions".

Regards.

[Felix001]

I see that there are details about Secondary Service Console Networks but this is only based on using different subnets. In this occassion I need to use 2 NICs assigned to the same vswitch as they both need to be in the same subnet.

Thanks for your help so far....

[MarekZdrojewski]

OK, but what are you trying to achieve? Could you be more specific about your setup pls?

Regards.

[ProPenguin]

I maybe miss reading your question and I appologize if I am but you just need to go to the vSwitch's Properties.  Then click on the "Network Adapters" tab and then click the "Add..." button.  Then just pick the appropriote adapter to add.  I have multiple vSwitches with multiple adapters.  Hope this helps.

[Felix001]

Hi,

I have a LAN which is 192.168.1.0/24. This is configured on all devices within 1 virtual switch. This vswitch has a physical NIC attached (that goes off to a wireless access point) and also have a service console configured for management into the ESX box.

To this LAN I want to add a physical Load Balancer. I have 1 spare NIC on my ESX which I want to configure to allow me to talk to this LoadBalancer.

Thanks,

[Felix001]

Yep I tried to add an additional NIC yesterday. When I did this I did have 2 NIC assigned to a single vswitch but I could not ping anything on that LAN including the service console IP.

Thanks all you help so far......