VMware help

[XZiBIT]

Hi Guys,
I need to check that this ESXi box is configured correctly. We are running a Dell PowerEdge T710 with internal nic with 4 ports. The VMware box is hosting 1 DC, 1 Exchange and 1 member server.

Each VM is sat on a separate vSwitch that is linked to a single nic port from the 4 available.

vSwitch0 = Management Network vmk0: 10.x.x.x
vSwitch1 = DC - 10.x.x.x
vSwitch2 = Exchange - 10.x.x.x
vSwitch3 = Member Server - 10.x.x.x

The VM’s are all operating on the same subnet range. Should we have a vSwitch for every server to allow the full use of each nic port or create a single vSwitch and add the available cards to it?

Thanks

 

[XZiBIT]

Ok that’s what I thought, just getting into VMware so I'm learning from a preconfigured system.

One last thing would our current configuration cause any network issues? It's just that the vSwitch properties shows the detected networks incorrectly e.g only detecting half of the subnet range and sometimes the exchange server can't ping other devices on the network after a reboot.


Thanks again