esx physical networking

[michlong]

Hey All,

i'm struggling with something and i realize its a real novice question, but thats what i am.

i have several ESX servers, and i am using hp blades, booting from SAN, SAN attached datastores etc, all that is working perfectly, not an issue.

the trouble i am having is networking and more specfically the physical networks on the esx servers.

each of the ESX servers has 2 physical network cards, currently the ESX server setup appears to team these cards and attach to vswif0, but what i really want is two seperate networks, one facing the outside world, and one simply shared between the ESX servers, i can segment this easily using the blade vcenter.

so, do i need to disconnect the vmnic from the vswif and create a new vswif? or can i just create a new vswif? again sorry for the newb questions

thanks i advance

[weinstein5]

First to clear up terminology - vswif refers to the Service Console port which is attached to a vswitch - and its to the vswitch that the the physical NICs are connected. Now on tto the physical Network - you always want to make sure you have redundancy in your network conections -

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[michlong]

i actually realized after i posted where i was going wrong.

understand the point about redundancy, but this is a lab, a large lab granted, but not concerned about redundancy for now,

thanks