vSphere vNetwork

Hello. I have a question about associating physical NIC ports to one virtual switch. I have two network segments. The first owns a group of VLAN ID's. The second owns a network isolated from the VLAN ID's just mentioned. Can I associate the physical NIC ports, which are connected through the physical switches to the two network segments, on the same virtual switch defined in VMware ESX 3.5/ vSphere ? I suppose I'd better associate the two network segments to two virtual switches , but I'd like to hear from you.

Thanks in advance for your help

If you cannot physically route betwen the two segments then you can create portgroups on a vswitch and have dedicated nics for each port group and plug the nics into the relevant physical switches that connect to the network segments or if total isolation is required then create a separate vswitch and do the same thing..

You NIC can be connect only to one vSwitch.

So is not possible.

See also:

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/virtual_networking_concepts.pdf

Andre