vswitch to physical NIC bindings

[mpcarlos]

Hey folks, not sure if this is the right place to post this. 

I have 2 HP DL380 G8's with 8 x 1gb nic ports and 2 x 10gb nic ports, 

The ESX Servers currently have the following vswitches

vSwitch0 (VMk) vmnic0,vmnic1 <- Management

vswitch1 (VMPG) vmnic3,vmnic6 <- Network

vswitch2 (VMk) vmnic2 <- iSCSI A (HP P2000 controller A)

vswitch3 (VMk) vmnic7 <- iSCSI B (HP P2000 controller B)

vswitch4 (VMk) vmnic8,vmnic9 <- iSCSI 1 (Synology)

is it possible to create a vswitch that can handle VMk & VMPG traffic bound to the same 2 NIC ports ?.

tia. 

[scott28tt]

@mpcarlos 

Absolutely, just add a VMK port and VM port group to the same vSwitch.

What is your use case?

[yosingh]

Hi, Not sure if i understood your question correctly. do you mean you want get rid of all the switches and keep 1 switch with 2 physical NIC and al the traffic ?

[mpcarlos]

@scott28tt Thanks for the advice and guidance. I'll check that out.

best regards

Tony

[mpcarlos]

@yosingh 

Essentially we are looking to remove the current iSCSI and networking vswitches leaving just management. Then i'll be physically disconnecting the HP P2000 from both servers and the 4 x port expansion card will be removed. 

the 10gb nic's are patched to new 10gb capapable switches (lagged connection) so my intention is to create a single vswitch that has both iscsi and vm network traffic bound to both nic ports.

best regards

Tony