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Shawnlo
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vCenter HA Network

Hi,

I am in the midst of switching everything over to distributed switches, however before I do this I would like to make sure my vCenter is fully redundant.  Looking at the prerequisites it looks like I need an entirely separate network for this.  A few questions come to mind as it seems like a waste of physical ports to me.  I have a smaller environment of 4 hosts , running 100 Guests.

Can this network be shared with anything else?

I am thinking as vCenter is going to be a major part of my networking once I am moved over, and that I should probably set up lag groups on each host for the vCenter HA network.

Please let me know if you have any other things I should take into consideration.

Thank you for your advice.

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daphnissov
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The vCHA network does need to be separate, but there's no need to set up a LAG for this as you can easily trunk a new VLAN down existing ports used for regular VM traffic.

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