I believe you are correct. You can do a cold migration without the Vmotion VLAN connection. You definitely need that 3rd connection if you are going to do Vmotion, though.
________________________________ From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics For starters you won't be able to VMotion unless the CPU family of the Blade just happens to match your 2950's. If that's the case then with two nics I'd set one up for your ISCSI and the other for Client Connections and just leave the blade sitting outside your HA group. I think you could still migrate Guests to and from it if they were shut down. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, would he still need a 3rd NIC connected to the Vmotion VLAN to even do a cold migration between servers? ________________________________ From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics Since nothing is really OT on this list here goes. I have a Dell blade center M600 that a free 32 gig blade is falling into my hands and I would like to make it my 4th esx server. My other three are all 2950's with 10 nics in them(overkill I know). The blade center uses two nics per server. Any recommendations on adding extra nics for Console, Vmotion, iscsi and network? dave This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
