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ASPedi01
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How to separate HA-/ DRS-/ and NFS-Traffic using dvSwitches?

Hi.

is there any way to "bind" NFS-Traffic to a separate physical NIC port using a dvSwitch?

From my point of view separating HA and DRS traffic is as simple as

1. generating two dvSwitches

2. adding a/some NIC

3. adding a VMKernel adapter for each switch

4. and selecting one of both checkboxes in the cluster properties page (HA or DRS)

Therefor i did the following configuration:

dvSwitchLAN - Should only be used for VMs and administration

Has one service console adapter (just for testing)

dvSwitch-NFS - Should be used for NFS traffic

Has one VMKernel adapter

dvSwitch-HA - Should be used for HA

Has one VMKernel adapter with enabled VMotion option

dvSwitch-FT - Should be used for Fault Tolerance

Has one VMKernel adapter with enabled FT option

Everything works fine, but finally i added a NFS datastore.

Now i have three VMKernel adapter (each a possible NFS "provider") and no clue which one is chosen for NFS and how to "bind" its traffic to the dvSwitch-NFS?

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot,

Markus

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Are you on separate subnets? see post http://communities.vmware.com/thread/219114?tstart=0

ASPedi01
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thank you :smileyblush:

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