newbie to vsphere networking

[alexheng81]

Hi,

I have this current scenario. My Internal LAN is on 192.168.12.x while my storage network is on 192.168.100.x.
I am currently using openfiler as my NFS. Openfiler network configuration are as follows,

I have 4 network cards on the server. How should i go about configuring it? Could someone please enlighten me?

Thank You

[FranckRookie]

Hi Alex,

There are several documents on the Net about how to set up such a configuration. You can for example have a look at this one.

Good luck.

Regards

Franck

[alexheng81]

Hi Franck,

Thanks for the reply.

But what i would really like to know is how do i do the configuration on the ESXi host?
I just cant get my head around it for this.

Thank You

[FranckRookie]

You need to attach one of your physical cards to your storage network. Then create a vSwitch attached to this card, add a VMkernel port with an IP address in the 192.168.100.x subnet. Once done, you should be able to reach your Openfiler from the host. (Useful Best practices here).

[alexheng81]

Thank You very much.

I will try it out tonight and revert with status ... Once again, thank you very much ...

Regards,

Alex

[idle-jam]

also once you get the networking sorted out, below is an tutorial that guide you how to mount the datastore.

good luck! http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/vmware-add-datastore/

[alexheng81]

But the so called storage network is just a logical segmentation.
So with that in mind, how do i go about configuring the network aspect on the vsphere?
This is the part that i cant get my head around it.

[depping]

Just add a VMkernel on the same subnet / ip-range as your storage!

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Duncan (VCDX)

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