Hello,
We have two esxi5 servers (Dell R710s) in a cluster. We use all seperate physical switches, no trunks/vlans. We have redundant switches for all networks.
Today we have one management interface (management and vmotion), two iscsi interfaces (for path redundancy to our SAN), and one VM network interface. We don't do a lot of vmotion, maybe once a week. No DRS, HA, or FT today (although we're licensed for all of it).
We have a total of 6 physical interfaces available. What's the best way to improve our design? I know we could seperate management and vmotion? Or we could go with two management/vmotion interfaces. We should also team our VM network interfaces.
I'm thinking "ideal" would be two management, two vmotion, two iscsi, two VM network. But that would require buying another NIC. If that's strongly recommended I can consider that. But if not, what's the best improvement we could make?
Thanks
Shane