Hi Everyone,
I have been doing a lot of research into optimising my current VM network and thought is wold be good to get the general advice of the VM community. I would like to get the most optimal performance frommy hadware so any advice anyone can pass on would be fantastic:
A diagram of our VM network setup for both hosts (I have all the VM's on one host at present due to some upgrades I am installing):
HOST 1:
HOST 2:
Questions:
Thanks!
Regards,
Glenn
Hello, take care about that:
Regards
Diego Quintana
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Diego Quintana
Hi all,
i have similar situation. In other words i have two IBM x3650 servers.
I need help in network configuration for HA. I have problem to decide which is the best configuration.
I have 6 x Eth card and 2xFCS for EMC storage per server.
Option 1.
Three Distributed Network Switches,
dvSwitch-NetworkTraffic 2 x Eth
dvSwitch-FT Fault Tolerance 2 x Eth
dvSwitch-Vmotion Trafic 2 x Eth (Management console)
Option 2.
dvSwitch-NetworkTraffic 3 x Eth
dvSwitch-VM-Kernels 3 x Eth (vMotion, Fault Tolerance, Management Console)
Option 3.
dvSwitch-NetworkTraffic 4 x Eth
dvSwitch-VM-Kernels 2 x Eth (vMotion, Fault Tolerance, Management Console)
I have two CISCO switches and i want to have full redudancy,and I have vSphere Enterprise Plus licence.
Which is the best option?
Option 2.
dvSwitch-NetworkTraffic 3 x Eth
dvSwitch-VM-Kernels 3 x Eth (vMotion, Fault Tolerance, Management Console)
maybe this one.
I recommend the following reading.
Networking:
http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/vsphere-host-nic-design-6-nics.html
iSCSI:
For me I would go with something like the following;
vSwitch0
2 x 1GB NIC - Management & vMotion network where load balancing is configured as
Management - vmnic0 active / vmnic4 standby
vMotion - vmnic0 standby / vmnic4 active
vSwitch1
2 x 1GB NIC - iSCSI network where load balancing is configured to
vmk1 - vmnic1 active / vmnic5 disabled
vmk2 - vmnic1 disabled / vmnic5 active
vSwitch2
2 x 1GB NIC - VM Networking
Then I would keep 2 NIC's for DEV or POC or DMZ or Backups or Hot Spare.
Each 1GB assigned as active for the vMotion network will allow vSphere to automatically do up to 4 simultaneous vMotions at the same time.
You are using ESX, rebuild these systems as ESXi so you can get used to this OS as ESX will not be available in vSphere 5 which is coming out very soon.
Regards,
Paul