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Most recent forum messages2008-10-20T16:34:02ZenBest practice and details for High Availability Networking
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<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:678222f0-89c4-4441-9fad-6887483e66a8] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I am deploying a new VMWare cluster and need some advice and detailed information on NETWORKING. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I need a detailed, "best practice" document for achieving the highest reliability by using redundant network connections and redundant switches; using private networks for the Service Console and for Vmotion(VMKernel) network. How are vSwitchs and vmnics configured; what are the NIC Teaming settings, etc.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Virtual Center Server has 3 NICS.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>ESX hosts have 2 built-in, 2 - quad Gig cards.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p> I also need to access NFS shares on the ESX hosts.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p> Is there a detailed document out there? Google has not turned up anything useful. I have three ESX servers set up in, what I think is, a redundant configuration. I am having trouble in testing the Vmotion failover. It seems to fail over but not back to the second NIC.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks in advance.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>JimW</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:678222f0-89c4-4441-9fad-6887483e66a8] -->2008-10-20T16:34:02Z1 year, 10 months ago1