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best VM 5.1 network config

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DashDave

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Hi - newbie question ( sorry)

I have set up 2 new vSphere 5.1 Essentials, (so no vMotion), servers with 4 x 1 gig interfaces in each, but no SAN (cant afford it just yet). The main us is test beds for customers servers in software development and for in house servers, plus a future idea to VM clients for PC work stations.

The main network is on 2 x 100meg Cisco managed switches and I have a 1 x 16 port 1 gig unmanaged switch.

What is the best configuration to utilize the network bandwidth, between the Hosts and for future use of VM workstations? But giving access to the running servers from all current workstations?

Dave
 
Setup a 2 networks 1 for Data Traffic 1 for VM Traffic.

Data Traffic gets 2 ports
VM Traffic gets 2 ports.
Managment is done on the vm network
Access to computer/guests is done on data network.

Usually you want to have independent switches.

Since you got a slow and unmanaged switches there is not much you can do to maximize network speeds. You also useessentials so you don't get nic teaming just failovers.

As for sans you have also the nas option, if your just testing its much easier to work with NAS and NFS then SAN iSCSI.
 
Ok, Thanks for your reply.

How do I force traffic to go via the designated interface? I.e. ensure that host to host comms is through the interface I have set up?

I have found a Cisco managed 1 gig switch on ebay, so will hav more control soon:)
 
For guest networking add whichever interfaces you wish to use as uplinks to the vSwitch that the guests are connected to.

For host management connect the management vmkernel interface to another vSwitch with the interfaces that you wish to use for management set as the uplinks.
 
You can setup an idependent network. Basically you go new network. Choose VM kernel and assign adapters to it this will push you managment traffic via those switches and network cards.
Choose a new network and setup a Virtual machine network to do you network guest traffic. Its on the configuration tab of your host. Its pretty straight forward. If you need to seperate guest traffic you can always setup additional port groups and vlan them.
 
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