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Hi all

I am a newbie in VMWare and really not had in networking. Need your suggestion kindly for our VM infrastructure plan.

Here's what I have (or will have):

I create a small cluser (2 ESX, each with 6 NIC host). There are 2 stacked Cisco 3750 and stacked 2 4524GT Nortel on our farm in GE switch. Up to now, we have 6 virtual machines, but we intend to put all the servers the VM infrastructure.

That was my previous plan:

I did some research in the documents of VMWare and BBS.  I plan to ESX hosts connected to Cisco units, their link to GE in 2 units of the evening. Configure NETWORK adapters, port channels, load balancing, etc...

An incident has changed my mind. A month before our network, group support updated nortel switches firmware. It's a nightmare. The Nortels 2 were dead after the upgrade. Had to pass all connections to the server of Nortel to Cisco and roll after that the call of Nortel has been set.

My question:

So let's say that sometimes the stackable switches will be dead together. Yes, I can connect an ESX with Cisco and another with Nortel. When stacked Cisco or Nortel is dead, we have yet another host working with switches lived. But I can connect an ESX with Cisco and Nortel? It seems more stable, isn't she?

For example, I intend to use the 4 NICs for production and other for SC and VMkernel network interface cards. The production of 4 network cards are rising in a vSwtich. Failover and load balancing works when I connect nic0 / nic1 with Cisco and nic2 / nic3 with Nortel?

My recommendation:

Configure NETWORK adapters, port channels, load balancing, etc...

Forget it. No team, no port channel. Just configure the uplink as junction ports ports and set the VLAN on the virtual port groups. VMware ESX (i) (with standard vSwitches) performs Round Robin load balancing based on the original default virtual port code, which is sufficient in most cases. With dvSwitches, you also have an option to configure NIC database load. In both cases you can use ports on all physical switches without having to think about making active configurations / standby at all.

On the beat of the heart. Usually, I connect the Service Console to a vSwitch with 2 physical uplinks, each on a different network card and everyone to another physical having redundancy switch. What I actually do is to put the Service Console and VMotion that vSwitch and configure groups of ports for active / standby to ensure that each of them uses a dedicated NETWORK adapter unless there is a network outage.

You must also consider switching to (installable) ESXi as ESX will be greater in the future. If you do not need to install agents on hosts etc, the only change will be that you will not have a "Service Console" more. For communication and management, you will have a «VMKernel network management» instad

André

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