VMware vMotion and management Traffic
Can I have Vmotion and Management traffic on the same Vswitch?
If some one already did so how to fix without major impact?
If some one already did so how to fix without major impact?
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You can have separate VLAN IDs for each imagined network (one for management, 2nd for management, one for SAN, another for vmotion etc)
Even if you have switch without VLAN support it will still send packets to right place.
Even if you have switch without VLAN support it will still send packets to right place.
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Yes, just select none, that' the correct.
the same as the other VMKernel Portgroup.
the same as the other VMKernel Portgroup.
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Thanks to all
If you still wish to separate: assuming you have 2 NICs (Using same vSwitch)
Create another vmk port.
so you will have vmk0 for management and vmk1 for vMotion.
Configure each vmk port with Active/Standby NIC, so you will have Mgmt using 1 NIC and vMotion another NIC, in case of NIC failure, other NIC will be used.
Using another vSwitch, you will not have NIC redundancy coz you will have to remove the NIC from vSwtich0 and assign it to vSwitch1
Am sure Andrew might be having an article written for that, if you are looking for How To steps.