Hello everyone. I have two standalone ESXi 6.5 hosts that I plan to setup in HA, both have the exact same hardware configuration. I am going to add a vCenter Foundation licenced VM this week.
Each host has two 10Gb iscsi NICs for VM storage located on my 10Gb SAN. They also have 4 (1gb) onboard NICs. I need to have my HA cluster setup this week for a website project that kicks off at the end of the week. I will have a vendor that will setup a new web server VM. At this time I don’t know if the vendor will ask for a DMZ, I assume they will.
How would you allocate each NIC for iSCSI, VMotion, MGMNT, VM traffic, and possible a DMZ?
I dont know if it Is possible but I was thinking each host can be setup:
2 (10GB) NICs VLANed for iSCSI (Vm storage) and vMotion
3 (1Gb) NICs teamed and vlaned for MGMNT and VM traffic
1Gb NIC dedicated to DMZ
My enviroment is small, 10VMs.
Thank you in advance everyone!
It will be good to have it this way:
2 (10GB) NICs VLANed for iSCSI (Vm storage) and vMotion (fast vmotion using the 10gb network)
1Gb NIC dedicated to DMZ
3 (1Gb) NICs can be used for management and VM traffic.
Also take a look at the following links and video:
VMware vSphere 4 - ESX and vCenter Server
Vmware vPhere 6.5 | Part 4: Configure Networking on vCenter Server - YouTube
Or would it be better to keep the 10Gb iSCSI NICs dedicated to just SAN traffic for storage. VLAN MGMT, VM, and vMotion Traffic on 3 of the 4 1Gb NICs?
It will be good to have it this way:
2 (10GB) NICs VLANed for iSCSI (Vm storage) and vMotion (fast vmotion using the 10gb network)
1Gb NIC dedicated to DMZ
3 (1Gb) NICs can be used for management and VM traffic.
Also take a look at the following links and video:
VMware vSphere 4 - ESX and vCenter Server
Vmware vPhere 6.5 | Part 4: Configure Networking on vCenter Server - YouTube
I think that is what i will do. Thank you very much for your input!