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NIC Card Assignments for FT: Where is KB 1011966?

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.

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The KB is now there. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1011966

Rick Blythe

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I can look into this for you.

Rick Blythe

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It should be published momentarily. It is still in draft mode currently so I'm pushing this through now.

Thanks for alerting us!

Rick Blythe

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VMware Inc.

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The KB is now there. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1011966

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That is good service right there!

Brian Atkinson | vExpert | VMTN Moderator | Author of "VCP5-DCV VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization on vSphere 5.5 Study Guide: VCP-550" | @vmroyale | http://vmroyale.com
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Thank you very much for your quick response, Rick! "Correct Answer" points awarded.

--James

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