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Adding a new forest\domain network in vCenter

Hi,

Looking to add a completely separate forest then domain in vCenter where I am contracting

Looking to ask this as where I am they have a consultancy company who support our infrastructure and any changes go through them etc,

We don't use distributed switches, so I'm looking to add a new virtual standard switch, with port group and uplink to that subnet

We have five esxi hosts and 120 vms, its quite a small environment

If someone could outline in steps, best practice for this would be a huge help in dealing with the consultancy company etc,

I'm trying to clean up the number of vlans we currently have etc

Indie101

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From what i have seen, i just need to add a port group to existing standard switches, there is a vlan setup for it already

Do this for each host as there are standard, anything else to look out for

Existing subnets are all 192.168.x.x this would be 172.21.65.x

I just realised as we don't use static ips, (reservations in DHCP) so have to create a scope for this

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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Indie101

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Thanks Andrew the domain will be completely separate, completely different security boundary etc

So no need for communication between the two, so thanks for that.... :)

My preferred option would be to use vlan but I've been told that theres been issues with that subnet before, for adding it to a physical nic, what is the best way, just to do it for each host, add the uplinks there?

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

new vSwitch with two physical uplinks (nics) for resilience, both active\active or what every arrangement works for your networking

Mark Bill

I would follow andrews advice , I would watch out for your default gateway routing between vlans unbeknownst to you.