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Hi Team, I'm looking for some quick advice on how to set up my new vSphere 7 environment. I'm using Synergy Frames, 3PAR arrays and iSCSI+FC just as a little background. Networking = I have six NIC... See more...
Hi Team, I'm looking for some quick advice on how to set up my new vSphere 7 environment. I'm using Synergy Frames, 3PAR arrays and iSCSI+FC just as a little background. Networking = I have six NICs and I'm planning on three vSwitches.  vSwitch1 for Mgt and vMotion (two nics, first NIC dedicated mgt failover vMotion and vice versa). vSwitch2 for Prod (two nics). vSwitch3 for iSCSI (two nics). Does this look right? Storage = I want to use VVOLS and I've never used them before. What I want to know is how should I set up the storage for my clusters? Don't you need two datastors for heartbeating? How would I set that up? Do I just setup two datastors that will be mostly unused and then have VVOLs for all my VMs? Any advice would be appreciated.
Hi team, Looking at the Vmware converter release notes, it seems Debian isn't a support guest O/S. Does anyone have any tips for carrying out this P2V is I can't use converter? I tried to use ... See more...
Hi team, Looking at the Vmware converter release notes, it seems Debian isn't a support guest O/S. Does anyone have any tips for carrying out this P2V is I can't use converter? I tried to use converter anyway, but the conversion failed at 1%. Thanks
Hi Team, We are setting up a new environment which is going to span three different datacenter locations in three different countries, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. This will be a very sm... See more...
Hi Team, We are setting up a new environment which is going to span three different datacenter locations in three different countries, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. This will be a very small install initially running on standard licensing. NZ will hold our vCenter appliance with integrated PSC and this will control clusters in Australia and Canada. I have a few questions though on best practice and I'm finding it difficult to source the information i want, I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following? What is best practice with DNS and vSphere? Let's say our AD domain name is domain1.com. Should I setup new forward and reverse zones in our DNS, something like vsphere.local, so my first host would be something like esx1.vsphere.local? Or would I be aiming for something like esx1.domain1.com? I was also thinking about using vsphere.local for my SSO domain name too, can I do this? Or do I have to have a separate SSO domain name? So I use my SSO domain as vsphere.local and then I setup vsphere.local in DNS and name all my hosts as above? I hope that makes sense.