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Re: Tagging design question

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Basically what you could do is create the following. The VLAN(s) of course will be whatever you have associated to the corresponding traffic type. And your VMNet's will be however many different VLAN(s) you want to use for your guests.

 

Create two standard vSwitches like this...

vSwitch0 - assign vmnic0 and vmnic1 to this vswitch

Console - Portgroup on VLAN106 - VMK0

vMotion - Portgroup on VLAN107 - VMK1

VMNet-1 - Porgroup on VLAN108

VMNet-2 - Porgroup on VLAN109

 

vSwitch1 - assign vmnic2 and vmnic3 to this vswitch

iSCSI-1 - Portgroup on VLAN128 - VMK2 - vmnic2 - active -- vmnic3 - unused

iSCSI-2 - Portgroup on VLAN129 - VMK3 - vmnic3 - active -- vmnic2 - unused

 

The iSCSI port setup like above will allow you to configure MPIO for your iSCSI datastores so you can use Round Robin plus provide failover. They will need to be on different VLANs for MPIO to work correctly.  Read the following http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-multipathing-configuration-software-iSCSI-port-binding.pdf for more information on vSS iSCSI MPIO.

 

If you decide to go with a vDS setup you can check out the following links.

http://everythingshouldbevirtual.com/nexentastoresxi53750glacpvdsnfsiscsi-part-1

http://everythingshouldbevirtual.com/vsphere-5-1-network-designs

 

Below is an image that could represent what you are looking at for your vSS setup which goes along with the above vSwitch designs.

4-NIC-vSS-iSCSI.jpg

 

 

Hope this helps you and there are other ways to carve these ports out but this is the first way that came to me.


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