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Good day VM guru's

I am trying to create a Private VLAN to use as a SQL heartbeat connection, First, if I create one and add Virtual Adapters to my VM, then put those adapters on the Private VLAN, does it matter what IP's I use? also is there anyone who has a detailed procedure to create a Private VLAN and get it working

Hi,

No it doesn't matter what IP's you use for the SQL heartbeat. Take a look here for a sample of the configuration that you need to run on your switches to support this: http://humairahmed.com/blog/?p=4627

Kind regards.

Thank you very much for the information, I have a question about my VM set up. I currently have my SQL cluster set up to be able to migrate to any of 28 different ESXi host, And all my RDM drives also migrate with the VM SQL cluster nodes.So My DELL 4810's are set up as follows

All my interfaces are connected to the 4810's with this configuration from the ESXi hosts

interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/5

no ip address

mtu 12000

portmode hybrid

switchport

spanning-tree rstp edge-port

no shutdown

I have a port channel to my core router and an interconnect between the two 4810's

interface Port-channel 25

description "Uplink to "6500"

no ip address

portmode hybrid

switchport

vlt-peer-lag port-channel 25

no shutdown

!

interface Port-channel 127

description VLTinterconnect

no ip address

mtu 12000

channel-member fortyGigE 0/48,52

no shutdown

My Private VLAN has no config as of yet

interface Vlan 410

no ip address

shutdown

DO I need to configure my VLAN 411, and I have it configured as such

Hi there,

Depends what you are trying to achieve - I'm going to assume this is for the SQL cluster communications in which case the answer will be no. Isolated means that you can talk to any of the VM's connected to the Promiscuous PVLAN but none of the VM's in the Isolated PVLAN can talk to each other.

Either your VM network adapters need to be connected to Promiscuous or you need to create a Community PVLAN which all the SQL cluster network adapters connect to.

Kind regards.

I recreated the Private VLAN to this config

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I was wondering if on my DELL 4810's I need to create both VLAN's and what would the config look like? anything like this

int vlan 410

- private-vlan mode promiscuous

- untagged tengigabitethernet 0/4

- no shut

- int vlan 411

- private-vlan mode community

- no shut

- end

- write