Assigning Physical NICs to Vmware port groups
Assigning Physical NICs to Vmware port groups
If I understand when you create port Groups you assign them to Physical NIC will carry that traffic.
Correct me If I am wrong ,
I believe when creating Virtual Machines Port Groups you can assign them any available Physical NICs except for the NIC that will be assigned to the Storage and the one that will be used for Vmotion . At least , if you make a mistake and assign VM port group to the same NIC that you assign to Vmotion, it will still work , but not considered optimal , but if by mistake you assign it to the NIC that is connected to the Storage, then it will not work.
When creating Vmkernel port group for storage , I believe you will have to know prior to assigning a Physical NIC, the name of the Physical Port.
example: Let's say on the ESX host, you connected port 4 to SAN switch. So you will have to take note of that , so that when you create Vmkernel for storage you will assign Physical Nic4 to Vmkernel for storage
Correct ?
Thank you
If I understand when you create port Groups you assign them to Physical NIC will carry that traffic.
Correct me If I am wrong ,
I believe when creating Virtual Machines Port Groups you can assign them any available Physical NICs except for the NIC that will be assigned to the Storage and the one that will be used for Vmotion . At least , if you make a mistake and assign VM port group to the same NIC that you assign to Vmotion, it will still work , but not considered optimal , but if by mistake you assign it to the NIC that is connected to the Storage, then it will not work.
When creating Vmkernel port group for storage , I believe you will have to know prior to assigning a Physical NIC, the name of the Physical Port.
example: Let's say on the ESX host, you connected port 4 to SAN switch. So you will have to take note of that , so that when you create Vmkernel for storage you will assign Physical Nic4 to Vmkernel for storage
Correct ?
Thank you
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1. virtual machine portgroups (used by VMs) - these do not get allocated IP Addresses - traffic passes through the vSwitch to virtual machine portgroups
If you have VM Portgroup for seaparate VLAN, then there should still be an IP subnet assigned to the port Group in Vmware. Correct ?
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OK......Thanks
e.g. vmnic0, vmnic1, vmnic2 etc
Once you have designed your type of vSwitch, you can start to add port groups, or which there are two typres
1. virtual machine portgroups (used by VMs) - these do not get allocated IP Addresses - traffic passes through the vSwitch to virtual machine portgroups
2. VMKernel Portgroups -m (used by the Host) - which carry host traffic, management, iSCSI, NFS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, FT logging, vSAN - these are assigned IP Addresses.
Your assumption is correct, but usually you would have a design, or piece of paperwork which documents what physical ports, physical network interfaces, carry SAN Storage traffic, jumbo frames etc - which would be dedicated and not carry any other traffic.