Mulitple-NIC vs. CASL for VMotion

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• Question about the collection of NETWORK adapters for vMotion / VM vSwitch

  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

  (1) both are active

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

  Question - if there is only 1 VLAN, it seems that NIC Teaming is also not very useful unless we use 2 VLAN (Multi-NIC vMotion).  Is this right?

  If you use Multi-NIC vMotion, there is no need to have two different VLANS, all you need is depending on configuration

  on your vMotion switch, please create two vmkernel port for vMotion with the same VLAN ID, but the grouping of NETWORK cards as below

  vMotion_1 - VLAN ID: 10

  Grouping of NETWORK cards

  vmnic2 - active

  vmnic6 - watch

  vMotion_2 - VLAN ID: 10

  vmnic6 - active

  vmnic2 - watch

• Cluster of VSA: can I use vmnic separated for vMotion and HA

  Update: I should have clarified. I posted this under VSA so I assumed it was clear that the issue was linked to VSA. VSA 1.0 _automatically_ creates a network of cluster and vMotion. I don't want this configuration as I have 8 vmnic, not 4. So instead of sharing the vSwitch, I hope that I can devote the vmnic.

  If I have 8 network cards, can I use my network cards and dedicate for vMotion? For example I create an another vSwitch, then devote 2 vmnic to it.

  The manual indicates that HA will use a network other than the ESXi management network. I thought HA always use the ESXi management network?

  Thanks for Singapore

  E1

  Hi Iwan

  I found your answer on page 22

  Software requirements for ESXi in a Cluster VSA

   

  vSphere standard switch and the configuration of the port group

  Each ESXi host must only have the default vSphere standard

  switches or groups of ports that are created during the installation.

  You don't need to configure any port or additional switches

  groups.

  So, in summary, you should have at least 4 cards network

  If you have 8 NIC you can only add network cards to existing switches for additional flow/redundancy

  So changing the vSwitches/Exchange is not supported

  I would like to see what happens if you do it well

  Please allow points to useful/correct answers

• several VMNIC for vMotion

  In all network designs I found the common theme seems to have a vSwitch with 2 natachasery and groups of separate ports for the service console and vMotion, both having alternate vmnic active / standby. IE: vSphere Kendrick Coleman NIC Design
  Curious on if it is useful to have more than 1 active vmnic for vMotion?
  After watching esxtop statistics of network, in the course of a host in maintenance, the 1 vmnic assigned to vMotion mode hit 900 MB/s.  (Port of 1 GB)
  By making it active/active, he out the two max vmnic during a vMotion and accelerate the process of moving the VM?

  We have natachasery to burn...

  By making it active/active, he out the two max vmnic during a vMotion and accelerate the process of moving the VM?

  No, the VMotion/VMKernel port - like any virtual machine group - assign to one of the active network adapters on startup. The second NETWORK card would be used only in the case of a failure of the first network adapter.

  André

• How redundency for vmotion multiple vmkernels?

  Hello

  I have an equallogic SAN on a host of vSphere. The connection is set up as follows:

  vSwitch1

  *************************

  -Service 2 console

  -iSCSI4

  -iSCSI3

  -iSCSI2

  -iSCSI2

  -

  ---

  vmnic4

  -

  ---

  vmnic5

  **************************

  The iSCSI1... 4 VMK are each and every one is related to a NETWORK card (either 4 or 5). If I can activate only vmotion on a VMK, how to make redundancy?

  I guess that NIC dedicated for vmotion is an option (?), but that seems to be an ineffective approach...

  Hello Gheywood,

  In fact, devoting two cards (team) network for Vmotion redundancy is the best choice if possible. If you can't do that, then you should not put your VMotion traffic on the same NIC team as your iSCSI traffic. You have dedicated network cards / network (physically separated if possible) for iSCSI.

  If you combine a group of ports VMotion with another group of ports, the Service Console (or in the case of ESXi management network) is usually a good choice.

  Unless you use convergent network (CNAs) and 10 GbE adapters, this isn't uncommmon to see 10 NICs in an ESX host using the IP storage. I hope this helps.

  Don't forget to mark this "correct" answer or 'useful', if you found it useful (you'll also points).

  Kind regards

  Harley stagnate

  VCP3, VCP4

• Swtich v dedicated for vMotion stop Websense?

  Hi all

  I have a 3 host ESX 2.5 U3 Cluster, with 6 NIC in each host (2 for LAN, 2 for iSCSI and 2 for vMotion, all in a team of FT).

  I had to build a new guest VM for Websense web filter. As the webfilter must be able to port your firewall connection mirror I removed one of the NIC in my team of vMotion and created a vSwitch dedicated for the virtual machine to allow me to use any of the physical NETWORK adapter for port mirroring, the vSwitch is also in promiscous mode to allow the webfilter to see network traffic. All other vSwitches have promiscous mode off.

  Since removing this NIC HA is unable to Vmotion to or from this host? I can still vMotion between 2 other guests? When attempting to migrate, it gets to 10% and expires? Is it because I have a vSwitch set to promiscous mode? This fine all worked until I created this new vSwitch.

  Thank you

  No all the ESX host in a cluster must be exactly the same set up on all the

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

  Host 1

  Management network is a vswitch. IP VLAN 350 172.31.250.201

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

  Host 2

  Management network is a vswitch. IP VLAN 350 172.31.250.202

  vMotion network is on an another vswitch. VLAN 500 IP 192.168.1.2

  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.

  Sorry for the question noob but not vmotion need access to the vlan management in order to work?

  Thank you

  No, what you're doing - vMotion running in a dedicated subnet - is actually recommended to do this. Ensure that the UCS switch ports are configured correctly, allowing the VLANS required.

  André

• Configuration of VLAN for vMotion (ESXi 5.1 update 3)

  Hello

  We use a cluster of ESXi 5.1 updated 3 guests with Enterprise Edition.

  Finally, our network is being upgraded and VLAN will be created for vMotion.  Currently, we use the local network for the management and vMotion (I know that's not good).

  Network administrator asks me to provide information concerning the requirement of the VLAN for vMotion.

  Is there any Document KB I can refer to mentioning that the administrator must put in place in the physical switch and I need to change in each vSwitch for vMotion on all ESXi hosts?

  Thank you

  Belong to your network administrator if it can link your vmotion IP to the same vlan that he will provide den it's possible.

  Otherwise, you will have to go to the configuration of your network administrator. so it can provide you the IP for the ports of vmotion.

• As part of the SAR cert is to have a NW separated between ESXi host required for VMotion or is it OK to use IP for VMotion management, in the execution of Certification tests.

  As part of the SAR cert is "have a NW/dedicated separate between hosts ESXi (on which we GOS) mandatory for VMotion or is - OK to use IP for VMotion management in the execution of Certification tests.»

  Note that the verification passed Test when you use management IP for Vmotion and without a dedicated connection to NW between ESXi hosts.

  Separate dedicated network interface cards preferred. No problem with the test after this change case.

• Minimum required permissions for vMotion

  Hi guys

  Environment: Vmware 5.5

  I need to set permissions to a user for quick vMotioning of VMs (a cluster 8 hosts).

  I found the minimum permissions for Storage vMotion, but not for vMotion specifically that I need

  any idea which must be check in the role of letting this user vMotion VMs?

  Thank you very much

  AFAIK, you must activate

  Query vMotion

  Migrate powered off the power of the virtual machine (formerly move)

  Migrate powered on virtual machine

  Resources thr. This should suffice for vMotion. Try these permissions and see if it meets your requirement.

• Storage for Vmotion issues

  Currently, I have two hosts running ESX 5.1 and is looking to add a third. I have VCenter Server is also installed. I don't have a VMotion configuration but want to plan for it. My two hosts currently have a SATA 2x1To in them running raid 1 + 0.

  Research on the forums I think I know that I would need a separate storage with iSCSI or FC eith server for VMotion to work. Is this correct? I would not be able to use my storage on my hosts to store my VM?

  I read on a few software solutions as the VSA unit, but I did not understand if it would allow me to use my SATA drives on my host. Any clarification would be appreciated. Thank you.

  Hello

  You can also store your VM on NFS (we use only).

  -one of the main requirements prior to 5.1 with VMotion was a shared storage (whether indeed iSCSI, NFS, or SAN) - it is now possible to local storage on a host vmotion to another storage room hosts - http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/vmotion.html

  Instructions

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/09/05/VMotion-enhancement-vSphere-5-1/

  You can store your VM alternately on a local storage as well with no problems.

• 2 groups of ESXi allow the same network for vmotion?

  I have 2 groups in the same data center.  The first is a cluster of ESXi 4.1 of 8 guests and appx 120 VM.  The other is a cluster of ESXi 4.1 6 hosts and appx 100 VM.

  On the servers in the cluster first, I mgmt interfaces on vlan 5 and vmotion interfaces on vlan 6 (different VLAN = recommended).  On the servers in the cluster 2, they were Setup with the interfaces of mgmt and vmotion interfaces as well on the vlan 7.  I want to correct this by moving vmotion to one vlan different.

  Is there a reason that I should not use vlan 6 for vmotion for both groups?  Or would it be better to have each cluster on its own vmotion vlan?

  Thank you.

  Yes. We have 9 clusters in two different vCenter, and they all use the same VLAN for vMotion.

• CPU compatibility for vmotion

  Hello everyone

  We plan to virtualize office with a view.

  I have a server with 2 xeon E5620 CPU intel 4 c 2.40 MHz. I have to buy another server, but I can't buy the same. The other server have 2 CPU E5640 intel xeon 2.66 MHz 4 c.

  Is - is this compatible CPU for vmotion?

  I read vmware documentation on CPU compatibility, but I can't find the answer.

  Thanks for your help.

  Hello

  You are welcome

  mark it as answered a we are good ;-)

  Artur

• Separate physical network for VMotion?

  In my design to an ESXi 3.5 on HP Blades I've defined for the management network 2 natachasery and 2 natachasery for VMotion. These go to separate switches blade Cisco 3120. Now I stipulated a stack of external switch to reach the switches for VMotion. The management of the network switches then go to another pile of management. Client E wants to reduce costs by sharing the external battery for traffic management and Vmotion and segregation through VLANs and making the VMotion VLAN non routable. Will there be falls for this?

  Keep in mind, it is a safe place. IW has also always said that VLANing should not serve as a separation of security because of the possibility of VLAN hopping. What are the risks here? Keep in mind that it is a sensitive network of defence-biased, so I try to separate the networks as much as possible.

  Your ideas are welcome

  If you have material (switches) in order to separate the network infrastructure then I do for reasons of pure performance.

  A physical firewall allows us to block all to enter our management and VMotion networks.

  They are both VLAN behind the firewall, but we can still allow a privileged access to the workstations of the administrator or a management server to reduce the footprint.  This method allows to manage the network with special exceptions.

  Sound risk pure vs cost.  If you think you have a good chance of someone Vlan jumping on your internal network, and then using physical security is the best bet.  If it's a low risk, then just segment it out with VLAN and use access lists and change ports to reduce the risk of vlan hopping.

  Hope this helps you decide.

• Steps for VMotion

  Hi all

  Is it possible to do VMotion betweeen two ESX servers without virtual Center? I have the trial version of 3 VI that has hypervisor ESX and virtual center client. I want to do vmotion using VI SDK 2.

  Is it possible to perform VMotion using all this?

  Do need me a permit for this?

  Also, when I try to see the configuration of ESX server licenses, I see nothing in connection with VMotion. I enclose copy of screen of the configuration section for the ESX Server. Can someone explain please these questions?

  Both ESX servers are installed on their respective hard drives and are not started from SAN. Two ESX Server sees a SAN disk. What else do I need for VMotion? Material of both servers ESX is the same. There is no problem of cpu compatibility check.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  A simple answer: No.

  You can also install the VC server in evaluation mode. VC server is the central management body that allows you to VMotion VM. If you use the SDK to move the virtual computer, you must use the API of the VC server and not an independent ESX host.

  If you want to use these features in production (VMotion, DRS) you need to a license to company for the ESX host and a server VC license.

  Screenshot of advertising: you do not use Server VC and all the features that require the VC server are not available as VMotion.

  Requirement for VMotion: shared storage for the virtual machine, several networks (production NW for traffic, VMkernel port for VMotion traffic). VMkernel port for VMotion traffic must reside on its own physical NETWORK card with a GBit network! Also, you must labeld compatible networks.

  I hope this helps.

  Cheers, Matthias