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Vmotion/Management traffic - Standard Switch or DvSwitch
Dear Community
Is it still the best practise to use vmotion / management traffic ( vmkernal adapters ) on standard vswitch with NIC teaming and standard LB policy ?
We are using Vsphere 6.5 U3 .
Our current setup is each host has 4 vnics .
2 of them connect to standard vswitch with nic teaming and standard LB policy for vmotion/management
2 of them connect to LAG on dvswitch for vm traffic ( lacp on physical network side )
We now have some new servers to setup ( based on HPE synergy ) and wanted to revisit this topic .
Appreciate your quick response in this regard
Any advantage of using dvswitch
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No, most people these days will go all-in on the distributed switch. I would just make sure that the Management Portgroup is set to Ephemeral, as that allows it to work fine without vCenter Server.
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Dear Duncan
Thanks alot for taking time to look at my query and for the quick help with an interesting document ![]()
I am blessed ![]()
Just a few follow up questions after going through the validated design .
Thank you in advance for some pointers / guidance .
1. Should we plan a different distributed switch for the Management /vmotion traffic or is it ok if we use the same distributed switch with a different LAG for the Vmotion / Management vnics in LACP ? Which approach is good ?
2. Is it ok to have a single LACP Uplink ( lag ) for both Management / vmotion traffic with different port groups for each ? Should we expect issues while using vmotion / management traffic with LACP ?
3. As we have a mix of old and new hardware in the same ESX cluster, is it ok for us to start with new hosts in the cluster having management / vmotion in a distributed switch and the old hosts still using them via standard switch ? as like for vm traffic , can we migrate the old hosts to the distributed switch config for management / vmotion traffic in a non disruptive way ?