Hello,
we have a IBM BladeCenter with Nortel Layer 2/3 Switch.
THe ESX Blades have 2 Network Interfaces.
Besides the ESX blades, some few blades have conventional OS and need to be directly hooked to one of the VLAN`s.
Wald should be considered BEST practice to connect this setup to a Corporate Backbone/Core Switch ?
1. Configure the VLAN stuff inside the Layer 2/3 Switch entirely.
2. Configure the VLAN stuff inside the Layer 2/3 Switch only for the blades with conventional OS and do passtrough for the trunk from the coreswitch and configure the VLAN`s via ESX portgroups.
I`m not very deep into VLAN/Networking, so sorry if this question sounds dumb
regards
roland
Do you really need different VLANs for VMs? If yes - 2.
Otherwise let guys from networking team do all the VLAN stuff.
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>Otherwise let guys from networking team do all the VLAN stuff.
thanks - unfortunately there is no networking team....
there is not even something i`d call a real admin team....