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Need to clean up my networking - advice please?

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Hi,

 

In preparation for some new hosts arriving I would like to clean up my networking, which has remained unchanged since vmware 3.5 - I believe I have redundant networking configured.

 

My current setup is 3 hosts using standard switches (ESXi 5.0). Existing hosts have 6 physical nics and are configured identically.

 

Here is an example setup from one of the hosts...

 

vSwitch0 (2 nics)

Port group: Production network - 192.168.x.x

Port group: VMkernel Port (label = management) - 192.168.x.100

Port group: VMkernel Port (label = vmkernel) - 192.168.x.200

 

vSwitch1 (2 nics)

Port group: VMKernal Port (label = Service Console iSCSI) - 10.10.10.70

Port group: VMkernal Port (label = VMkernel iSCSI) - 10.10.10.80

 

vSwitch2 (1 nic)

Port group: VMKernel Vmotion - 10.10.50.70

 

vSwitch3 (1 nic)

Port group: DMZ network - 172.10.x.10

 

Some questions and things to mention...

 

  • I understand the management interface is on the same network as the production traffic. I accept this risk.
  • In vSwitch0, why do I have a vmkernal port in my production network? I do not have the same port in vSwitch3
  • I believe the 'Service Console' port group in vSwith1 is redundant and can be removed?
  • The new hosts will each have 8 nics so I would like to maximise the throughput of Production, iSCSI and vmotion traffic where possible.

 

What changes would you recommend?

 

Thanks in advance.


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