Hi,
In preparation for some new hosts arriving I would like to clean up my networking, which has remained unchanged since vmware 3.5 - I believe I have redundant networking configured.
My current setup is 3 hosts using standard switches (ESXi 5.0). Existing hosts have 6 physical nics and are configured identically.
Here is an example setup from one of the hosts...
vSwitch0 (2 nics)
Port group: Production network - 192.168.x.x
Port group: VMkernel Port (label = management) - 192.168.x.100
Port group: VMkernel Port (label = vmkernel) - 192.168.x.200
vSwitch1 (2 nics)
Port group: VMKernal Port (label = Service Console iSCSI) - 10.10.10.70
Port group: VMkernal Port (label = VMkernel iSCSI) - 10.10.10.80
vSwitch2 (1 nic)
Port group: VMKernel Vmotion - 10.10.50.70
vSwitch3 (1 nic)
Port group: DMZ network - 172.10.x.10
Some questions and things to mention...
- I understand the management interface is on the same network as the production traffic. I accept this risk.
- In vSwitch0, why do I have a vmkernal port in my production network? I do not have the same port in vSwitch3
- I believe the 'Service Console' port group in vSwith1 is redundant and can be removed?
- The new hosts will each have 8 nics so I would like to maximise the throughput of Production, iSCSI and vmotion traffic where possible.
What changes would you recommend?
Thanks in advance.