Hi,
My setup have the following components:
3 Hosts with 4 NICs for each host
1 NAS storage connected to the hosts using iSCSI and NFS
1 switch with 1GB ports speed
2 switches with 100MB ports speed
I have a limitation to connect only 2 NICs from each host to the 1GB switch, so what is the best design for the network here.
Currently I'm doing it like this:
NIC1 -> 1GB Ethernet for the storage (iSCSI and NFS)
NIC2 -> 1GB Ethernet for the VM network and Management traffic
NIC3 -> 100MB Ethernet for the vMotion
Should I add NIC4 -> 100MB Ethernet and bing it with NIC1 for storage network redundancy?
Is NIC3 -> 100MB Ethernet enough for vMotion? (keep in mind that I have DRS enabled and set to Automatic)
Is it better to move the Management traffic to NIC3 -> 100MB Ethernet and keep VM network and vMotion on NIC2 -> 1GB Ethernet?
what do you suggest?
Thanks in advance folk,