network migration

[kopsr]

I have a question regarding a network migration. Currently we use a 3com netwerk with a 192.* network address. Our ESX servers are equipt with 4 NIC. 2 for vm's, 1 sc, 1 vmotion.

I seperated the 2 vm nic and now have 1 nic which can be bound to a new virtual switch. But... the vmnic is connect to the 3 com network. If I connect to nic to the cisco environment which is a 10.* network range would the vmic detect this and show a 10.* range ? If not should I reboot ?

I want to bound the nic to a new vswitch in a 10.* network and migrate my vm's at my convenience from the 192* network to the 10* network. Any other options would be appreciated.

thanks a lot

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Hi there, if you're concerned with what you're seeing in the the networks column, then you don't have to worry about that when you change switches. What you see in Networks is a 'network hint' and is based on broadcast traffic that ESX sees. Your VMs are limited to the range displayed so if you change a NIC from one switch to another it will be fine as soon as you change the IP address in the VM.

[dkfbp]

Just create a new vswitch for virtual machines and connect the nic to the cisco switch. That is it.

When you have done that, try to add the nic from the switch to a virtual machine and give it an ip address in the 10.x network and test if it works.

Frank