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Help Setting Up Second Subnet on 2nd NIC ESXi 5.0 Vcenter 5.0 Private IP
Help,
I am trying to set up a second vSwitch (vSwitch 1) to use private 192.168.0.0 IP. Need to use for MS Network Load Balancing.
vSwitch0 is set up on a 10.0.0.0 network and we are using DNS and routing.
What is the best way to go about this? What needs to be set up in vCenter and the host and what needs to be set up on the switch to make this work.
I am trying to set up a second vSwitch (vSwitch 1) to use private 192.168.0.0 IP. Need to use for MS Network Load Balancing.
vSwitch0 is set up on a 10.0.0.0 network and we are using DNS and routing.
What is the best way to go about this? What needs to be set up in vCenter and the host and what needs to be set up on the switch to make this work.
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I am load balancing VM's. I am trying to set up a second NIC on my 2 VM's with a 192 address.
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Thanks very much for your input and advise. I was able to add a second portgroup without adding the NIC. This solved my issue.
Very good glad to help.
IP Addresses are only setup on the Host, for Management Networks and VMKernel Portgroups.
The vSwitch is like a physical switch, the traffic will pass through to the correct network, depending on what physical network uplinks you give it.
IP Addresses are allocated to VMs, which are connected to a vSwitch, which uplinks via physical nics, are connected to a physical switch.