It's simple. Right now it's just one physical NIC going to a port on a Cisco switch but I'm looking to add another physical NIC to another port on a second switch running HSRP:
Vlan 100 configured (VMs)
Vlan 200 configured (ESXi hosts and management subnet)
HSRP Sw1:
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/25
description ESXi_NIC1
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk
end
Vlan 100 configured (VMs)
Vlan 200 configured (ESXi hosts and management subnet)
HSRP Sw2:
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/25
description ESXi_NIC2
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk
end
On the ESXi:
vSwitch0:
Port Groups (2 defaults):
VM Network (Assigned Vlan ID: 100)
Management Network (Assigned Vlan ID: 200)
vmnic0
vmnic1
NIC Teaming: Route based on originating port ID
Problem:
After adding an available NIC (vmnic1) to vswitch0, I enbaled the Cisco switchport after configuring it as a trunk like the first one, then the VM stopped pinging.
Inital setup:
Now the way I set it up originally, was to first connect the ESXi host to the physical switch as a host to an access port to stand it up and configure it, then once we got ESXi up and running, log in and assign VLAN IDs/numbers to the 2 port groups. When I do that, the traffic drops to the ESXi host until I change the physical switchport to a trunk, and then it takes somewhere around 30 seconds before the host comes back up and is accessible again. Once it does, I can create VMs on the VM Network (Vlan 100 / VM Network) which is a different subnet from the ESXi IP (Vlan 200 / Management Network) and both are trunked from the physical switch using one cable to one switch. I want to add redundancy using another NIC. Thanks in advance.
