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iHazAQuestion
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Need help to see if I configure the Networking part correctly.

Hi,

Just started with ESXi 5.1, not sure if I configured my network correctly.

Below is a screenshot of it.   I group two line for the mangement and vm network, as you can, it's the 10.44.239.x subnet.

On the vSwitch2, that's my 10g network.  Currently I have 2 x 10G port coming out from my DL380 G7 server, that's connected to my switch with 2 x 10G port coming from my HP P4300 Lefthand.  I have two DL380 G7 which they are setup in a cluster.

My question is, is it okay for me to bundle the two 10G port together and slice them up for different usage ?  such as vMotion and of course access the iSCSI target.

Also, I have 4 more subnets that's not trunked, and I do have 4 more avaliable ports on my server.  Does that mean I have to plug in those 4 different subnet into each server and create 4 different vSwitch for them ? So I would be able to assign different VMs to use them ? Or is there an easier way?

Thanks!

http://i.imgur.com/nSrOe.jpg

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HeathReynolds
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Best practice would be to run trunks and have this traffic seperated by VLANs.

With two 10g and two gig you have some options, mostly built around using the overide failover options and setting active / standby.

You could do -

Gig 1 - MGMT Active , ISCSI Standby

Gig2 - ISCSI Active, MGMT Standby

10G-1 - VM Traffic Active, vMotion Standby

10G-2 - vMotion Active , VM Standy

You could also run multipath ISCSI and use both gig, and move your MGMT over to the 10G.

To add VLANs you need to add them to the trunk on the appropriate interface and create port groups assocaited with the VLAN on the vSwitch.

My sometimes relevant blog on data center networking and virtualization : http://www.heathreynolds.com
iHazAQuestion
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Hi, thanks for the reply.

I have 2 10G ports and 6 1G ports actually.

My storage network is in its own private network, and that's where the 10G network is at.

So with your Gig1 , iSCSI standby , I dont' think it is going to work for me Smiley Sad

Also thank you for telling me to trunk my port, I never did it, it is so amazing :smileygrin:

Now I have 2 ports that's trunked with all the VLAN, now I am going to deidcated 2 more nic to form a group, so they can do failover activte/standby.

And yes, I've also created each port groups with apporiate VLAN for them.

Thanks!

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