Vmotion Nic question regarding implementing vsphere 5.1 solution with SAN
Hey, We are in the design faze of a vsphere 5.1 implementation. The specific question that I have is should I put the Host vmotion traffic on my core flat network or on the Iscsi network? Thanks,Rob
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Welcome to the Community - Ideally vmotion traffic should be on its own isolated network - who many physical NICs do you have in you ESXi host?
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Its always a best practice to have vMotion in a separate network to avoid the bottle necks. As said above , if you have physical NIC's available you can have that dedicate for vMotion
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Re: Vmotion Nic question regarding implementing vsphere 5.1 solution with SAN
Definitely depends on if you are using 1GB or 10GB and how many physical nics in the host. Also what version of vSpere you using (Ent, Ent+, etc.) And if you are planning on using vDS (vSphere...
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Each host has 8 nics, the SAN has 10 nics.The current plan is as follows: ISCSI NetworkSAN / 8 nics. 4->iswitch1 & 4->iswitch2HOSTS: 2nics, 1->iswitch1, 1->iswitch2 Core Network ( Our...
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The above configuration looks good to me.
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