Configuration of VLAN for vMotion (ESXi 5.1 update 3)

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• How to configure the VLAN for Cisco SG500 - switch 28

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  heybuzzzz wrote:

  In my case with no vMotion and just management and 3 VLAN all about 1 vSwitch I should put them all to active?

  Yes, they should all be active, there is really no need passive adapters (that I'm aware of your configuration).

  On your physical switches, you don't need to do anything more than what allows a VLAN correct, i.e.: should all etherchannel or a similar montage. Side vSwitch, you must use the default 'Port ID' nic teaming strategy.

• Can't access ESXi host after VLAN for MGMT has been implemented?

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  Network administrator has received only 5 VLAN for MGMT vSwitch.  Since then, we are not able to ping on the ESXi host, or access in vCenter.

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• VMotion: A large private VLAN or several small VLAN for each cluster?

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  Hello

  I did have problems with a large network of VMotion. Or with cluster of specific networks of VMotion. Note that with VLAN possible external of attacks using the VLAN is a matter of trust as the VLAN do not guaranttee security.

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• Configuration of Vlan SG300-20 for the desktop and server ESXi

  Hello

  I'm fairly new to network so please, be gentle.  I'm setting up a number of VLANs for my lab at home.

  I recently moved jobs and took an Oracle Apps of the Middleware & role has therefore need to start picking up the Apache, e-Business Suite, etc. of the load balancers so need to segragate my network to allow different configurations, I want to install in my lab ESXi.

  My setup is detailed below:-

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  My Cisco switch has been set to 192.168.1.2 and the installer to use the 3 layer.

  I have a number of PCs connected to my switch I want to use to administer my ESXi server and have access to the different VLANS.

  VIRTUAL LANs, I need are the following

  VLAN 1	192.168.1.x/24				By default / Internet Uplink
  VLAN 12	10.0.12.x/24				Workstations
  VLAN 13	10.0.13.x/24				Server management interface
  VLAN 14	10.0.14.x/24				Public Interface Server
  VLAN 15	10.0.15.x/24				Private server interface
  VLAN 20	10.0.20.x/24				Storage

  My esxi server has two network interfaces that will have traffic MGMT, Public and private configured as virtual interfaces in ESXi and one that runs my traffic of storage/nfs mounts on a QNAP NAS, I want to make it work on my network

  Here is how I have the ports

  A Port VLAN membership
  G1	VLAN1
  G13 - 20	VLAN 12		Need to access the VLAN 1, 13, 14, 15, 20
  G9	VLAN 13, 14, 15
  G10	VLAN 20
  G7 - 8	VLAN 20		LAG configured to QNAP NAS

  G13-20 are my workstations that need to be on VLAN 12, but must also be able to connect to 13, 14, 15, 20, SSH, RDP, NFS

  G9 is the Interface of MGMT of ESXi who need to have traffic on VLAN 13, 14, 15

  G10 is ESXi storage Interface that needs to access the VLAN 20 only

  G7/g8 are connect to QNAP that ideally I want to configure as a LAG.   When I get more interfaces in my ESXi Server I'll finally the team to match.

  I set up an ip interface in my CISCO switch to 10.0.12.1 as gateway to my workstations and created a static route in my router to allow traffic to the switch.  This does not quite yet.

  I also installed a default route to 0.0.0.0

  I followed a number of guides, but struggling to get my head around concepts and how to achieve the above configuration.

  Ideally, I want to configure this through the CLI as Ive had no end of problems with the web interface of the Cisco switch.

  I believe need g9 of trunk, and other ACCESS is it exact.

  How the workstatations to access the other VLAN?

  Any help would be appreciated

  Thank you

  Paul

  Hi Paul, to break it down a little.

  Host A connects to port 13.

  config t

  int gi0/13

  switchport mode access

  switchport access vlan 12

  ESXI connects to port 9

  config t

  int gi0/9

  switchport mode trunk

  switchport trunk allowed vlan add 13-15 (keep in mind this vlan 1 is unmarked here and is the IP of your server interface)

  This translates

  ESXI = 192.168.1.x 24 gateway 192.168.1.2

  interface vlan 1

  IP 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0

  no ip address dhcp

  Host A = 10.0.12.x 24 10.0.12.1

  interface vlan 12

  name of the workstations

  10.0.12.1 IP address 255.255.255.0

  With this basic host configuration at shall communicate to ESXI (no other config on the switch)

  If please try to get the connectivity of base first, then can work on the roads and DHCP.

  -Tom
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• Best practices for the configuration of virtual switches with ESXi

  So we have a dish network, no VLAN. I have a total of 6 NETWORK adapters per ESX host... Since there is no Service Console or is it shared with the Prod vswitch here is how I have the configuration of the NETWORK adapters.

  Keep in min, we use ESXi 3.5

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  I have attached the screenshot.

  Please let me know if you do anything differently?

  Dave bang on! the IP of VMotion ESXi will be used for the same purpose. For many ESX on the brain, sorry.

  Each VM will get no more than 1 GbE over four network adapters. Once a virtual computer is given a NIC, it will remain on the NETWORK card using the default configuration and it is good because the virtual machines are distributed between the four of them.

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• The vlan vmotion should join him vlan management for vmotion work?

  Host 1

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  vMotion network is on an another vswitch. VLAN 500 IP 192.168.1.1

  Host 2

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  Running Cisco UCS, the vNIC for vmotion are the vlan 500 but vmotion works only when they have access to the vlan 350 the management vlan.

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  Hello

  We use vSphere Enterprise Edition 5.1.

  We also create separate vSwitch for management / vMotion and VM.

  Each vSwitch receives 2 network cards connected to the different switch for redundancy.

  We would like to know is necessary to provide the collection of NETWORK adapters for these vSwitches?  Currently, only enable us NIC Teaming for VM vSwitch only.

  Thank you

  VSwitch vMotion, we have 2 assigned NIC (nic2 and nic6) with 10 VLANS.  NIC2 and nic6 are connected to 2 different physical switches.

  Should I choose

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  (2) both are assets + grouping of NETWORK cards?

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• Network connectivity error when you configure the server for vSphere

  I've just set up my first hypervisor, and naturally it became painfully obvious how much I have to learn.

  I met a problem that I don't know how to fix. When you configure the server, I have configured network settings manually in order to give him the good gateway, subnet mask and static IP address. Unfortunately, I still get "Failed" when I ping the DHCP server. ""

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