Greetings everyone, this is my first post here. I am fairly new to vmWare, but not new to networking and IT as I have been doing this professionally for over 20 years. However, learning new technology takes a little trial and error and I'm running out of time for this project. I'm hoping I can get some best practice recommendations for my environment so that I may get this project deployed quickly. It's currently in a lab environment and can be shut down at any time for configuration changes.
I have two identical DL360P Gen8 servers with dual CPU, power supply and 96GB of RAM. Each server has 4 physical 1GB NICs.
I also have a Synology Rackstation RS812RP+ connected via iSCSI to both ESXi Hosts with LACP with an HP V1910-48G switch. Both Synology ports are linked and trunked and communicating properly to both hosts. I have also created a shared storage NAS for storing the company data files and some VMs.
We have a total of 5 production VMs with Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard. This is a standard AD environment with a SQL server, but no Exchange.
On the V1910 switch, I have created 4 VLANs, 10-14, 100 that will be used for 10-vMotion, 11-VM Network, 12-iSCSI, 100-VM Management.
On the switch I have created all ports as trunk ports with an interface on each VLAN corresponding to the IP subnet it handles. my BAGG group (Link Aggregation) is also part of the same pool of VLANs with tags and a trunk port. All ports are tagged with all VLANs.
VLAN 10 - 10.101.10.x - vMotion
VLAN 11 - 10.101.11.x - VM Networks
VLAN 12 - 10.101.12.x - iSCSI
VLAN 100 - 10.101.100.x - VM Management Network
What I need help with specifically is two things.
1. Recommendation for dividing up vSwitches and Port groups for my environment to provide the best throughput and performance. Also, NIC teaming and aggregation recommendations.
2. Communicating over the VLANs and specifying those VLANs in the port groups. Currently it is set to the default (none (0)) and everything is communicating because they are all on the same subnet of 10.101.1.x. When I change the IP addresses of the vmKernel connections or add the VM Networks to a VLAN, I lose connectivity and have to edit them back to the 0 VLAN on the console. I know I'm doing something really simple and stupid, but I need a third set of eyes to help me point it out.
Thank you for all your help,
Max