Hi, my ESX 5 cluster will have four hosts with 8 NIC's each. Currently I have two physical switches with two physical VLAN's each (switches are trunked). I was going to use the NIC's in the following way:
- 2 nics for Management/vMotion (vSwitch0) connected to VLAN1 across both switches
- 2 nics for VM network (vSwitch1) connected to VLAN1 across both switches
- 2 nics for DMZ network (vSwitch2) connected to VLAN2 across both switches
- 2 nics unused
My question is... would it benefit me to create a 3rd physical VLAN and use the final two NIC's for dedicated vMotion? One of the reasons for the question is I'm running low on physical switch ports, but I would have enough to accomadate vMotion if there would be benefit. Thank you!
