Hi,
I have 1 server that has 8 gigabit ports inside. There will be 6 VLAN (including VLAN ID 4095) inside this ESX server. Is it best practise to team up all 8 gigabit ports and link to vSwitch0 (Default) and create port group per VLAN?
Regards,
T.S.
absolutely is not a stupid question
Only for security and performance reason. You can use teaming configuration in boht case. (2 nics for sc and vmotion and 4 nics for vlan tagged vm)
It's importand to undertatnd that there is not an absolutely answare, but only a best practice, and it's correct also your design.
Thank's Alberto
That will certainly work, however it's a better practise in my opinion to have a seperate vswitch for your DMZ traffic, a seperate vSwtich for standard VM traffic, seperate vswitch for your service console and vmkernel portgroups (although these 2 can be on the same vswitch).
depending from: vm number or better traffic bandwith that you need.
A best paractices is separate SC from vm traffic. In your case you can setup a bond with a couple of nics for sc and vmotion and other 4 nics for vlan tagged traffic for your vm.
Remember: is better use vlan and port group in a single teamed vswitch than use multiple switch. VSwitch load vmkernel activity.
I hope useful this notes
bye Alberto
It seem likes all documents about ESX server said that we need to seperate Service Console and VMkernal to different NIC. This may be a stupid question to ask guru that why we need to do if one of advantages for NIC teaming is automatic failover. In my case, why do we team all 8 NICs to handle all network traffic?
absolutely is not a stupid question
Only for security and performance reason. You can use teaming configuration in boht case. (2 nics for sc and vmotion and 4 nics for vlan tagged vm)
It's importand to undertatnd that there is not an absolutely answare, but only a best practice, and it's correct also your design.
Thank's Alberto
Have you seen Texiwill's post?
http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Blue_Gears_-_Virtual_Networking
Jase McCarty, VCP, vExpert
Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center
(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach
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