Hi,
Objective:
Currently vMotion is attached to the vmkernel used by the Management traffic on a standard switch which only has 1 Gbit/s uplinks.
Aim is to move the vMotion traffic to start using the 10 Gbit/s uplinks (which are currently in use by vSAN as Active/Standby)
Steps:
Create a new VLAN and respective network (ex: /24)
Allow/add the newly created vLAN on the hosts uplinks switchport trunks
On the Distributed Switch in use by vSAN having 2 uplinks (1 active and 1 standby)
Create a new distributed portgroup to be used by vMotion
Attach the portgroup to the newly created VLAN that will be dedicated to vMotion
Set the Teaming and Failover to use the vSAN standby adapter as its Active Uplink with the remaining one set as Standby (reverse order)
On each host in the cluster
Add a vmkernel adapter
Select the newly created distributed portgroup
Tick the vMotion as Enabled Services
Set an IPv4 address
Finish
Repeat the above (add distributed portgroup per cluster and vmkernel adapter for each host)
For each cluster distributed switch in use by vSAN, in NIOC change vSAN traffic from 50 to 100 (Leave all else as default)
Once all done, remove vMotion traffic from the Management vmkernel
Do you think the above steps are correct/complete as plan is to do this on a live environment? (DRS is disabled on all clusters so no VM migrations expected)
Any tests you can recommend (other then trying to migrate some VM's) to proof all configuration is correct/working?
Welcome any thoughts/suggestions.
Thanks
