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vmnics vs physical nics
What is the correlation between virtual Nics and physicial nics? I have the following:
wrmnic0 - 10 gig fibre
wrmnic1 - 10 gig fibre both connected to my NAS
then
wrmnic 3,5,6 & 7 all connected on a VMswitch 2
wrmnic2 connected on vmswitch 1
I'm trying to add 2 more servers on the same vlan however, I don't have any more nic cards. I have 4 ports on a seperate nic on the hardware but it's just not showing up.
On my vmswitch2 I created VP port group and the server is up and running - but is the correct? Will the traffic get slowed down. I'm enclosing a screenshot
wrmnic0 - 10 gig fibre
wrmnic1 - 10 gig fibre both connected to my NAS
then
wrmnic 3,5,6 & 7 all connected on a VMswitch 2
wrmnic2 connected on vmswitch 1
I'm trying to add 2 more servers on the same vlan however, I don't have any more nic cards. I have 4 ports on a seperate nic on the hardware but it's just not showing up.
On my vmswitch2 I created VP port group and the server is up and running - but is the correct? Will the traffic get slowed down. I'm enclosing a screenshot
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so I will not have issues with Traffic? So once I run out of resources I'm done. - Meaning CPU and memory? How many nics do I need for 6 servers on the same vlan?
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So basically 2 nic and virtual port will do the trick. Thank you so much.
Two nics at 10Gbe is huge for 6 VMs
BUT monitor......
BUT monitor......
ASKER
the 10gb is only to the NAS the regular VM's are on gig connections
Okay same applies two minimum is fine
But I don't know your VMs or traffic
So monitor performance in the future and add more if it's the bottleneck
But I don't know your VMs or traffic
So monitor performance in the future and add more if it's the bottleneck
In hyperv you can bind the nics to a virtual switch. All servers can obtain network access through that one and only vswitch to the outside.
In other words, you dont need more nics.
Cheers