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  • 1.  esxi mgmt network redundancy

    Posted Oct 24, 2010 03:23 PM

    Hi All,

    I have googled away at this, but am wondering if anyone has a few words of wisdom.

    We have recently migrated our esx setup to esxi 4.1, and previously we had an SC on its own network, and on the vmotion network for redundancy. I have setup 2 vmk's in esxi, one on its own dedicated management switch/nic, and the other on our vmotion network.

    However esxi still complains saying the host has no management network redundancy, the two mgmt vmk's are on seperate subnets/vswitches and pnic's. Am I missing something simple here? :smileyhappy:

    Many Thanks!



  • 2.  RE: esxi mgmt network redundancy

    Posted Oct 24, 2010 03:32 PM

    On ESXi you have a new type of vmkernel interface: the Management interface.

    You can use two management interface, or use use on a redoundant vSwitch (with at least two uplink), or (for VMware HA) configure to use other vmkernel interfaces.

    Andre



  • 3.  RE: esxi mgmt network redundancy

    Posted Oct 24, 2010 03:34 PM

    Did you configure this setup right now?

    I read another post some time ago (can't find it at the moment) with a similar setup. If I remember correctly, the message disappeared after some hours.

    André



  • 4.  RE: esxi mgmt network redundancy

    Posted Nov 18, 2011 02:01 PM

    Paul what was the outcome?

    I migrated my vCenter Server 4.0 to 4.1 yesterday. I have 5 ESX hosts and one new ESXi host attached. The ESXi host is displaying "host xxx currently has no management network redundancy"

    Here's a screen shot off my network setup