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JoJoGabor
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I would strongly advise getting your VCP or getting a VMware Authorised Consultancy to help you with the design here. You really need to get the base design correct otherwise your whole environment will start to give you problems.

In basic terms, you will need network connections for iSCSI, VMotion, VMs and Service COnsole. iSCSI and ideally Vmotion should be on a separate VLAN at a minimum, separate swithces if possible. You will also want redundancy built into the network, so I would suggest getting a server with at least 4 NICs:

1 for iSCSI (1Gbps) but then you will need a 1Gig port for every host and for the SAN itself

2 for VMs (ideally gigabit) load blanaced or failover

1 for Vmotion (should be 1 gig for production), but will work at 100Meg but may take longer and/or fail.

THis is really a bare minimum

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