Hmmm, It all depends how what you want to do, best practices or tight budgets and how your environment is. You can either do 2, 4, 6 or more. Normally I do the following for DR or smaller networks with iSCSI VMFS
pNIC1 - COS pNIC2 + 3 - Guest Networks pNiC4 - iSCSI On larger productions networks with Fiber VMFS (add more NICS if I want more segregation) pNIC1 + 2 - COS pNIC3 + 4 - Guest Networks pNiC5 + 6 - Vmotion I've even done this on smaller DMZ or infrastructure hosts pNIC1 +2 - Everything, you can do policy based routing for the protocols and each NIC fails over to the other as well From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics 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. _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
