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ESXi 5.1 Setup Questions

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Starting to build and setup my new server. I have a couple of quick questions hopefully:

1) Is it possible to add multiple datastores to a VM?
2) I have several NIC/ports installed, how do I assign specific ones to a VM?
 
1. Yes. When you create a virtual hard disk for a VM you can choose what datastore to place it on.
2. You don't want to pass through physical NICs to the VM. Create a virtual switch, assign 2 or more NICs to it that are balanced across switches, then a VM Port Group on top of that and assign your VM's NIC(s) to the Port Group. You can create multiple Port Groups on the same switch (VLAN tag for logical separation) or more virtual switches on different physical NICs.
 
That makes sense for 2).

Let me restate 1).

I have 4 disks defined on two controllers. Currently each disk is defined as a separate datastore. Is it possible to add all four disks/datastores to a single VM guest?
 
Yes. You can create a virtual hard disk for the VM on each datastore. Then the guest OS can use LVM or RAID to stripe data (if you wish) across all 4 virtual hard disks each of which reside on a separate datastore.
 
Child of Wonder said:
Yes. You can create a virtual hard disk for the VM on each datastore. Then the guest OS can use LVM or RAID to stripe data (if you wish) across all 4 virtual hard disks each of which reside on a separate datastore.
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OK. But I can not figure out how to add a new disk specifying which datastore it will be from.
 
Child of Wonder said:
Right click VM, Add, Hard Disk, Create New, Specify a Datastore or Datastore cluster.
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Hmmm..... there is no choice/option for specifying the datastore. Is there something that needs to be done to the datastores?
 
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see option in pic
datastore.jpg
 
OK, I got all the servers configured and up and running. I would like to optimize the network configuration some. Here is the basic layout:

1) VM - web server
2) VM - multi db server
3) VM - iSCSI and NFS server

The actual machine has 8 gigabit NICs. On VM 3, I would like to have 2 dedicated ports for iSCSI traffic and 1 dedicated port for NFS traffic. I would like to have one port for shared internet access between the VMs. I would like to have one port used between the VMs for general access( logging into for maintenance ). I would like to setup an internal switch for VM 1) and 2) to talk to one another. What would be the best layout/setup to achieve this?
 
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