After a lot of researching and imput from people I think I have a decent looking layout for our new virtual enviroment (see attached image for layout). I have 3 EXSi Host each containing 6 physical NICs. This configuration and the diagram below are just for a single EXSi host, all host will be configured the exact same. pNIC 0 will handle Management and pNIC 1 will handle VMotion, they will be configured on vSwitch0. pNIC 2 & 3 will be just VM Network traffic and they will be configured on vSwitch1. pNIC 4 & 5 will handle iSCSI traffic and they will be configured on vSwitch2. All pNICs are configured with a active connection and a standby connection. I have 2 physical switches that will be configured identically. They will be configured with 2 VLANs. VLAN 50 will handle iSCSI traffic and VLAN 60 will handle vMotion traffic. Here is the switch config..
Current configuration:
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ver 07.0.01cT7e1
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module 1 fws1g-24-port-copper-base-module
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vlan 1 name DEFAULT-VLAN by port
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vlan 50 by port
tagged ethe 0/1/1 to 0/1/12
ip-subnet 10.10.11.0 255.255.255.0 name iSCSI
no dynamic
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vlan 60 by port
tagged ethe 0/1/13 to 0/1/23
ip-subnet 10.10.12.0 255.255.255.0 name VMotion
no dynamic
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vlan 99 by port
tagged ethe 0/1/24
ip-subnet 10.16.X.X 255.255.255.0 name MGT
no dynamic
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aaa authentication web-server default local
jumbo
enable super-user-password .....
enable port-config-password .....
enable read-only-password .....
enable aaa console
hostname iSCSI-Switch1
ip address 10.16.X.X 255.255.255.0
no ip dhcp-client auto-update enable
no ip dhcp-client enable
username admin password .....
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Any input on the switch configuration would be appreciated!
The EMC SAN unit has two seperate processors, each containg 2 NICs for a total of 4. The SAN will have a connection from each proccesors NIC to each switch (see diagram for clarification).
Alot of this has been a learning curve for me, any input on the setup would be great!
Thanks