While I continue to study and go through some vSphere Design Scenarios a couple of things came up that I have questions about. Pertaining some of the Vendors and 10Gbe, and how at the Vendor layer, HP Flex10 and Cisco Unified Fabric, the network segementation of bandwidth is done at their layer and presented to vSphere.
In this case, looking at some scenarios, for instance if vMotion, DRS, and evacuating VM's from a host for maintenance needs to be robust, how do you handle that scenario? My question pertains to vSphere actually being presented the proper bandwidth to either do 4 or 8 vMotions. Is there an inbetween area say I present 4Gb of bandwidth from the infrastrucutre side to vSphere, does that allow me to do more than 4 vMotions or am I limited meaning, do I have to present 10Gb and vSphere needs to see 10Gb in order for me to do 8 vMotions or is this a 1Gb for 4 vMotions, and 10Gbe for 8, no inbetween?
In a scenario with blades say you have two onboard 1Gbe controllers, and a dual port 10Gbe CNA. How do you segment say VMkernal for MGMT, vMotion, FT, and VM traffic? I know this is a loaded question and obviously is needing more information per scenario, I understand the NIOC and vlans could be used if there isn't segmentation at the vendor layer in this scenario, but it seems that we can't address the SPoF here. I guess, I should learn that we can't address SPoF in most cases it seems?
Will this be an issue for VCDX..etc..or is it understood going through that process?
In this case, looking at some scenarios, for instance if vMotion, DRS, and evacuating VM's from a host for maintenance needs to be robust, how do you handle that scenario? My question pertains to vSphere actually being presented the proper bandwidth to either do 4 or 8 vMotions. Is there an inbetween area say I present 4Gb of bandwidth from the infrastrucutre side to vSphere, does that allow me to do more than 4 vMotions or am I limited meaning, do I have to present 10Gb and vSphere needs to see 10Gb in order for me to do 8 vMotions or is this a 1Gb for 4 vMotions, and 10Gbe for 8, no inbetween?
In a scenario with blades say you have two onboard 1Gbe controllers, and a dual port 10Gbe CNA. How do you segment say VMkernal for MGMT, vMotion, FT, and VM traffic? I know this is a loaded question and obviously is needing more information per scenario, I understand the NIOC and vlans could be used if there isn't segmentation at the vendor layer in this scenario, but it seems that we can't address the SPoF here. I guess, I should learn that we can't address SPoF in most cases it seems?
Will this be an issue for VCDX..etc..or is it understood going through that process?
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