I'm in a quest to find KB 1011966 as mentioned in VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance whitepaper (see excerpt below). Does anyone know where I can find it? I've searched vmware.com without luck.
Can anyone join me in this quest?
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2.6. NIC Assignments for Logging Traffic
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FT generates two types of network traffic:
Migration traffic to create the secondary virtual machine
FT logging traffic
Migration traffic happens over the NIC designated for VMotion and it causes network bandwidth usage to spike for a short time.
Separate and dedicated NICs are recommended for FT logging traffic and VMotion traffic, especially when multiple FT virtual
machines reside on the same host. Sharing the same NIC for both FT logging and VMotion can affect the performance of FT virtual
machines whenever a secondary is created for another FT pair or a VMotion operation is performed for any other reason.
VMware vSwitch networking allows you to send VMotion and FT traffic to separate NICs while also using them as redundant links for
NIC failover. See KB article 1011966 for more information.
That is good service right there!
Thank you very much for your quick response, Rick! "Correct Answer" points awarded.
--James