Hey guys
We are gearing up to deploy a new VMWare environment. Until now, i have always used physical boxes and NICs have not been a problem and I've mainly played with the free versions....
This time were going paid.
We have Dell blades to use with pass through modules, with 5 network cards per blade, all Broadcoms running at 1GB pass through to 2 physical HP switches (no switches in the blade chassis).
I'm trying to work out the best use of the network cards
We will have 3 hypervisors with a iSCSI SAN.
I was thinking:
2 NICS (Active / passive 1 to each of the 2 switches) for storage
2 NICS (active / passive 1 to each of the 2 switches) for VM Network and management
1 NIC vMotion
I could add a 6th NIC in to allow 2 NICS to each service (active / passive to each of the above)
I would love your thoughts on my idea, as i can see a few ways to do it, and im not sure what would be the best
Thanks!
