Ok, my networking team enable trunking and all the tagging on the network side of things. I have the necessary information I need as far as VLANing and stuff but I'm not sure how to implement the changes on the vmware side.
Right now, I have 3 NICs enabled. They are as follows:
vmnic0 -> vSwitch0 running Service Console
vmnic1/vmnic2 -> vSwitch1 where our VMs are running off of.
Network right now is on the 172.18.16.x/24 subnet. I'm out of IPs and would like to introduce a new subnet. 172.18.17.x/24.
What do I need to do to allow vmnic1/2 to allow traffic for the old subnet as well as the new subnet?
1 - Do I create a new vSwitch and tag that w/ the vlan id my networking team assigned? If so, I assume I would also need to tag the vlan on vSwitch0.
2 - Will I have to reboot my ESX server to accommodate the changes?
3 - Do I have to modify anything in Lab Manager?
TIA
