Advice needed for 10 port NIC

Guys,

We have a dell 2950 with 10 port NIC (2 cards with 4 each and built in 2 port on the dell).

We plan to have redundancy with 5 ports is one physical switch, and other other 5 ports goes to another physical switch.

For the moment, we are looking to just 5 machines to VMs on each host.  Regarding the construction of the vm machine, I have to create a separate for each machine virtual switch if I want to use 2 ports by a vm machine?

TIA,

TNT

You can really use 2 ports by a vm machine, unless the virtual machine has two network cards.  At this point, they should not be on the same network, and it's not really a good practice for servers, unless you use them as routers.

In order to use several physical from a vSwitch perspective maps, your physical network cards which are the uplinks to the vSwitch must run on the same physical switch.  Interfaces will be to separate switches offer redundancy only and cannot be aggregated unless the switches are 'stacked' together, effectively making it a logical switch.

So, with this many ports, I would use a pair of service console, a pair for vMotion, another pair for storage traffic (if you are using iSCSI/NFS), and then you have 2 pairs remaining for virtual machine network traffic.  For 5 vm, it's a huge amount of bandwidth, but 4 physical network adapters to GigE should go a long way toward the more vm traffic needs.

-KjB

VMware vExpert

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