Dell Cisco 3130X- Manuals

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Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers Contents 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 2 ...

Page 4 - Introduction; Infrastructure 3 on DellTM; Overview; Fabrics; Fabric A; To communicate with an I/O

Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers 1 Introduction This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware ® Infrastructure 3 on Dell™ PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying ...

Page 5 - Modules; Page 5

Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers module in the Fabric B slots, a blade must have a matching mezzanine card installed in a Fabric B mezzanine card location. You can install modules designed for Fabric A in the Fabric B slots...

Page 7 - Hardware Owner’s Manual; Table 1: ESX/ESXi Physical Adapter Enumeration; port n

Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers Figure 3: Adapter and I/O Modules connection in Chassis for Full Height Blades For more information on port mapping, see the Hardware Owner’s Manual for your blade ...

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Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers 3 Network Architecture Network traffic can be divided into two primary types - Local Area Network (LAN) and iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN). LAN consists of traffic from virtual machine...

Page 9 - High iSCSI SAN Bandwidth:; high LAN; Local; Table 2

Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers • High iSCSI SAN Bandwidth: In this configuration two I/O modules are dedicated to the LAN and four I/O modules are dedicated to the iSCSI SAN. This configuration is useful for environments ...

Page 10 - Route based on source MAC hash:

Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers 3.3.1 Traffic Isolation using VLANs The traffic on the LAN network is separated into three VLANs, one VLAN each for management, VMotion, and virtual machine traffic. Network traffic ...

Page 11 - Load; The current ESX version uses only one path for each connection.

Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers You can also connect multiple blade chassis together. If the total number of front-end switches is less than 8 for Cisco, or 12 for Dell, then you can stack all the switches together into a ...

Page 12 - References

Networking Best Practices for VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers Page 12 4 References iSCSI overview - A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual iSCSI customers using VMware http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/01/a-multivendor-post-to-help...