Hello,
we have two ESX Servers and both have 6 physical NICs, at this time there is only one physical switch availiable (so no redundancy). Now I want to configure my network and I'd like to discuss the following network design:
vmnic0, vmnic1 -> vswitch0 -> Virtual Machine Network (Active/Active)
vmnic2, vmnic3 -> vswitch1 -> iSCSI Network (MPIO)
vmnic4 (Active), vmnic5 (Standby) -> vswitch2 -> vMotion
vmnic5 (Active), vmnic4 (Standby) -> vswitch2 -> Management
Now vMotion and Management would be on the same IP subnet but this is not best practise, that's why I want to use VLANs for it:
vmnic4 (Active), vmnic5 (Standby) -> vswitch2 (VLAN 10) -> vMotion
vmnic5 (Active), vmnic4 (Standby) -> vswitch2 (VLAN 20) -> Management
Is this best practise? I have now separate networks for vMotion and Management and a failover link is available. What do I have to configure on my HP ProCurve 2510G-Switch? Let's say vmnic4 and vmnic5 are connected to port 1 and port 2 of the HP Switch, do I have to add two VLANs (10 and 20) on the Switch define define port 1 and port 2 as an untagged vlan port for these VLANs? The second ESX server will be connected to port 3 and 4 there is the same configuration?
Should I use VLANs for the other networks although it not seems to be necessary?
Greetings!