We have:
10 ESX 3 Servers
1 SAN with 4TB of storage
Each ESX Server has 3 dual port GIG nics and two Fiber cards for SAN.
I am only concerned with configuring networking for vm, console, and VMkernel. Fiber cards are already planned out (primary and failover back to SAN switches).
My plan:
Let me give you a little more info on nics so you clearly understand the plan. Nic1 (onboard) has ports (0 and 1), Nic2 (PCI slot) has ports (2 and 3) and Nic3 (PCI slot) has ports (4 and 5).
Plan:
port 0 and 1 for primary teamed virtual machine traffic switch
port 2 and 5 for failover teamed virtual machine traffic switch
port 3 for console
port 5 for VM Kernel
Anyway, let me know what you think.
Two areas I am grey on:
-Is one gig port enough for VM Kernel?
-Is not having failover for console ok? Is console traffic strictly traffic into web console interface and traffic from ESX box to Virtual Center?
Any input as usual is appreciated! VMWare rules!
