Designing Network Configuration for VMware ESXi host

[Crystal2]

I am supposed to design a network configuration for VMware ESXi host for my school project.

One of the requirements stated was

• Company policy states that all VMkernel network traffic must not be on the vSwitch as Virtual Machine network traffic

Does anyone know what this statement means?

[sureshbabuv79]

Hi, you can create different vSwitch and assign different uplinks of the host so that entire traffic will be isolated from VM traffic

[a_p_]

In ESXi you have two types of port groups.

• VMkernel port groups - used by ESXi itself (e.g. Management Network, vMotion, etc.)
• Virtual Machine port groups - used for virtual machine network traffic

These port groups can be created on vSwitches, which then usually have uplinks (vmnic) to physical switches.

What the statement means, is that all port groups are created on a single vSwitch, rather than distributing the port groups on multiple vSwitches. The mentioned requirement is actually the default configuration that you see after setting up an ESXi host.

André