We have a 3.5 ESX Infrastructure. I build the Hosts but, we have a Network Infrastructure team that handles the network side.
As far as switch port configuration. We configure our Virtual Machine vSwitches as trunk ports. Is it necessary to do the same for the Service Console vSwitch or the VMkernel vSwitch? Currently I don't think we do.
I'm a little ignorant on the Cisco side but, I want to make sure I have this straight.
if you do not need to then there is no reason -
yes you can - you can assign vlan tags to both service console and vmkernel port traffic - you can assign a vlan tag to all the traffic going through the virtual switch or you can assign vlan tags to each virtual machine port group, vmkernel port and service console port on the vswitch.
I was pretty sure you could but, I was just wondering if it was required or if there would be any advantage to doing it. Since there isn't multiple neworks going over those ports, I didn't see any reason to.
if you do not need to then there is no reason -
Thanks. That's what I needed to know.