Re: VMware Ethernet with Cisco EtherChannel and Trunking Question
Thanks you two. It's odd. When I tried setting some of the interfaces into trunk mode it said I couldn't if the encapsulation was in auto mode. Those few interfaces only let me set it in trunk mode...
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Thanks HeathReynolds. We did realize one limitation. We planned on using 15 ports (5 per host), but etherchannel only supports 2 to 8. Since we're not on 10Gig yet, we had to limit it to 3, 3, and 2 on...
View ArticleRe: Port mirroring available with vswitch or only dvswitch?
So the ESXi side is completely unaware of the mirroring in your setup? In that case it should not make any difference whether you use a standard or distributed vSwitch. The forwarding logic is exactly...
View ArticleRe: VMware Ethernet with Cisco EtherChannel and Trunking Question
DITGUY2012 wrote: 1. The use of "no ip address" was not seen in many vmware discussions. Trying to understand that one better, although HeathReynolds says we don't need it. Case in point. Also it says...
View ArticleNexus 1000v - to use or not to use?
Hi, I'm at a client's site and they are considering using the 1000v for their DVS's - I'm just concerned about the supportability once we hand this over to the vmware support guys. My question really...
View ArticleRe: VMware Ethernet with Cisco EtherChannel and Trunking Question
Wow Josh. If only you had written the documentation. That's the trouble with it. People like me look for definitive instructions because we're not 24x7 network guys. Great documentation would layout...
View ArticleBest design for using 8 physical NICs on an ESXi 5.1 host
I have 8 physical NICs to work with on and ESXi 5.1 host using Enterprise Plus licensing. I need to service the following traffic: Management trafficvMotion trafficVirtual machine traffic (Probably 2...
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Re: VMware Ethernet with Cisco EtherChannel and Trunking Question
DITGUY2012 wrote: Wow Josh. If only you had written the documentation. That's the trouble with it. People like me look for definitive instructions because we're not 24x7 network guys. Great...
View ArticleRe: Best design for using 8 physical NICs on an ESXi 5.1 host
I'm presuming that you are using 1Gb uplinks. If I were looking to make the most use of all the uplinks then I would do something like the following; vSS0 - Standard Virtual Switch - 3...
View ArticleRe: VMware Distributed switch / Hide Network Label / Port Group?
Management portgroup has been defined on the vDS, that is why it is a selectable option for the VM. Remove the management portgroup from the vDS and the VM won't be able to use it. A vDS doesn't care...
View ArticleRe: Best design for using 8 physical NICs on an ESXi 5.1 host
With 8 NIC's I would do something like this. standard virtual switch 2 nics Mgmt active/standbyvMotion Standby/active your fun starts with the splitting of the remaining 6 nics depending on production...
View ArticleRe: VMware Distributed switch / Hide Network Label / Port Group?
This is one of the reasons that I still use vSS for Management and vMotion and iSCSI/NFS etc and just use vDS for production VM traffic.
View ArticleRe: VMware Distributed switch / Hide Network Label / Port Group?
Exactly. That's usually my preference as well. But it's harder in a 10GbE environment to segment the traffic like that because we usually only have 2-4 uplinks.
View ArticleRe: VMware Distributed switch / Hide Network Label / Port Group?
this is where orchestration starts to come into its own, as these issues of human intervention can be circumvented by proper workflow. But I agree that 10GBe and higher is bringing new design...
View ArticleRe: Best design for using 8 physical NICs on an ESXi 5.1 host
Have a look at the link below for some ideas. With 8 nics I would do something like this. This scenario will assume that all VLAN(s) required are allowed on all eight uplinks. If not then you will need...
View ArticleVLAN ID Trunk
Dear All,i have ESXI5.1 with 1 NIC, however i want to create two VLAN's 20 and 10, and want them to be seperated for test purposes,i've created a Vlan Trunk 4095 and vSwitch for Vlans 10 and 20,the...
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Hi there, You'd need to trunk the VLANs you need to the NIC on your ESXi (in this case 10 and 20), plus make sure you keep your management network available. Apart from this you'd need to create 1 port...
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Totally possible with one or multiple NICs. Just make sure you configure the port on your switch where the NIC is connected to with the right VLANs you want to use on the vSwitch.
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if i do this all Vlans will be able to communicate with my Physique network? ESXI 192.168.2.10my laptop 192.168.2.106ISP router 192.168.2.254Vyatta 192.168.4.1DC 192.168.4.2EX 192.168.4.3Database...
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