We are configuring ESX and VC on Blade servers with only 2 NICs (I know not the best setup - but that is what we have to work with) so to isolate VMotion traffic we are setting up a separate VLAN. Two questions:
1) Is there traffic between the subnet that you out ESX and VC on and the subnet for VMotion, or is the VMotion traffic just between the ESX servers?
2) I am planning to team the NICs using the IP Hash load balancing (connecting to Nortel switchs with MLT their name for 802.3ad), do you think it is work limiting the Service Console traffic to one NIC, VMotion traffic to the other and load balancing the VM traffic on both? Or just let the load balancing manage the traffic up for all three port group types?
Thanks for any insight.