WAN Emulation at Distributed Switch

[anuragschandra]

Hi,

I have a setup (Lab Environment) where i have 8 ESXi hosts on a VSphere Stretched Cluster .

4 Hosts - Site1

4 Hosts - Site 2

1 Port - vmknic5 from each of these 8 ESXi hosts form a VDS Switch 1

1 Port - vmknic6 from each of these 8 ESXi hosts form a VDS Switch 2

VDS

What i am wanting to do is simulate RTT of 10ms between the two sites via these two switches?

I have looked at WANEm and Dummy cloud but am not sure how i could introduce latencies between these two sites via these 2 switches.

Can i have a route setup so that any traffic via vmknic5 from hosts in site 1 and vmknic5 from hosts in Site 2 go via WAN Emulator or Dummy Net and the same thing for vmknic6?

Please provide your inputs.

Thanks,

Anurag

[vmroyale]

Hello and welcome to the communities.

Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware vSphere™ vNetwork

[pjw1971]

I inadvertently came across this discussion and although it's old thought I should comment as WAN Emulation technology has changed since 2013.  You've already seen from your own experiences that there are limitations with the 'free' tools and they also don't always provide the accuracy or realism required for enterprise application and data transmission testing. 

iTrinegy have partnered with VMware since 2014 and we released our first VMware Certified Network Emulator Virtual Appliance in 2015.  It enables you to create many types of real-world networks such as WANs, Satellite, Mobile, WiFi and DSL in an ESXi environment.  There's further information on the VMware Solution Exchange Alternatively we're running a webinar in early June, details here

Hope this helps even though it's five years later :-)