VMware-Migrate iscsi traffic from standard switch to distribute switch

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dvs, iscsi traffic, migrate, standard switch to distribute switch, vmware

Option01

When we are having some extra network adapsters. We can follow below steps.

1. In thi slab environment, we have two nics for existing iscsi connection using Vmware standard swtich.
   1. Esx01.mobilab.local have one standard switch configured for iscsi traffic

1. Now we have configured vmware distributed switch and added vmnic4 & vmnic5 to this distributed switch & all the ip address configured.

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VMVware vswitch load balancing methods

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load balancing, Route Based on IP Hash, vmware, vmware networking, vsiwth, vswitch load balancingg

Load balancing is one of the most important thing in a virtual world. Because we are using few NICs for receiving & sending a data of multiple virtual machines. There are few policies in vmware load balancing . We will take one by one and lets have a look.

Route based on originating virtual port ID

Example

In this vswitch I have two nics allocated.

And I have three virtual machines as bellows

 

Server A have one Nic,Server B have two Nics & Server C have one Nic.

Route based on originating virtual port ID works like round robin. Server A nic will be use physical vmnic4 for passing the traffic.

Server A first nic will be use vmnic5 and second nic will be use vmnic4

Server C have only one nic and it will use vmnic4.

In this load balancing mechanism it doesn’t measure any other things. That is the main disadvantage of this, but we don’t have to do any modifications to the physical network environment.