I am looking to implement a 10 gig setup. Currently everything is running on 1gb. MUST have 5- 9's up time. So i am looking to implement the 10gb in conjuction with the current 1GB and eventually switch everything over to new SAN and network.
I have a VMware 6.7 3 host cluster. just focusing on one host right now. 4 iSCSI networks , 1 mgmt network and 1 vmotion network. Purchased a 2 port 10gb card for the host. 24 port Dell switch 10gb and Dell V3020 SAN with 10GB ports as well.
Primary question (and please let me know if this is in fact NOT the primary question) can i run 6 networks (4-iSCSI, vmotion, and mgmt) networks, through vlans and trunking on the Dell switch, to 2 physical nics on my host?
Basically can i through layer 3 routing, run 6 networks, iSCSI and Lan traffic, across 2 physical nics on my host? From what i am told, it can be done on the switch side, but can it be done on the host side using 6.7 vmkernal adapters? Can i run multiple vmkernal adapters on the same physical nics?
I think i will need separate physical nics for each network i am running, i also feel that is best practice.
Thoughts everyone?
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