esxi 5.5 Standard
What would be best practices in this scenario as my eyes are crossed in looking at different configurations, blogs, and threads. Any advice is appreciated!
- 3 - hosts (4th down the road)
- 1 - 2x 10gb nic card
- 1 - 2x 10gb nic card
- with 2x 1gb nics
- 1 - 4x 1gb nic card
- iSCSi Equallogic
- 20-30 initial VMs
| NIC 0 -10GB ACTIVE | NIC 0 -10GB ACTIVE? | NIC 0 - 1GB ACTIVE | NIC 0 - 1GB ACTIVE | NIC 1 - 10GB ACTIVE? | NIC 1 - 10GB ACTIVE | NIC 2 - 1GB ACTIVE | NIC 2 -1GB ACTIVE | NIC 2 - 1GB ACTIVE? | NIC 2 - 1GB ACTIVE? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vSwitch2 | vSwitch0 | vSwitch1 | vSwitch2 | vSwitch0 | vSwitch1 | ||||
| iSCSi | Management Network | VM Network | iSCSi | Management Network | VM Network | ||||
| trunked | vMotion | vlan | trunked | vMotion, FT, | vlan | ||||
| hb | vlan | hb | |||||||
| FT HB | FT HB | FT | |||||||
| trunk | trunk | trunk | trunk | ||||||