Greetings,
We're going to be performing a P2V of our current physical server with 3 directly attached iSCSI volumes in its current setup. The VM will have the same 3 directly connected iSCSI volumes.
I'm curious what the best network design for this would be. Here is our current setup:
HOST | vSwitch | Port Group | IP Address | VLAN | Primary pNIC | Backup pNIC | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VHOST1 | vSwitch0 | Management | 10.x.x.71 | 11 | vmnic0 | vmnic4 | |
| VM Network | 11 | vmnic1, vmnic5 | NICs are active/active | ||||
| vMotion-1 | 192.168.xx.11 | 22 | vmnic4 | vmnic0 | |||
| vMotion-2 | 192.168.xx.12 | 22 | vmnic3 | For performance enhancement only, therefore no backup NIC necessary | |||
| vSwitch1 | iSCSI-1 | 192.168.x.210 | vmnic2 | ||||
| vSwitch2 | iSCSI-2 | 192.168.x.211 | vmnic6 |
We have 8 pNICs in these hosts and I'm currently using 7 of them. Our SQL server currently has 4 iSCSI connections, but 2 would probably be sufficient.
We have 2 physical iSCSI switches.
How should I set this up properly for performance and redundancy? My understanding is that for the guest that will be directly connected to the SAN it should have a pNIC dedicated to that.
Thanks for your help!
