Book Image

Getting Started with VMware Virtual SAN

By : Cedric Rajendran
Book Image

Getting Started with VMware Virtual SAN

By: Cedric Rajendran

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Getting Started with VMware Virtual SAN
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Truly Software-defined, Policy-based Management
8
Troubleshooting and Monitoring Utilities for Virtual SAN
Index

Network layout


The networking required for Virtual SAN is set up on a vSwitch for simplicity. We have three vSwitches created with the six network cards distributed to the required port groups, as shown in the following table:

vSwitch

NIC

Speed

Type

vSwitch0

vmnic0

vmnic1

2 x 1 GB

Management and vMotion network (vmk0)

vSwitch1

vmnic2

vmnic3

2 x 10 GB

VSAN network (vmk1)

vSwitch2

vmnic4

vmnic5

2 x 1 GB

Virtual machine network