Home Lab
I currently have a bunch of systems connected to a single physical 16 port GBE switch. Two of these systems are ESXI Hosts. Both ESXi Hosts have VM's loaded, and they each have a single Vswitch that has that systems physical NIC added. In addition I have 1 Windows 2012 R2 server (multi-role storage) with 6x3TB HDD, and 1 Admin station with Windows 7 with 3x2TB HDD
It's all one flat single network, one subnet, no VLANS, no port trunking, no Jumbo frames, or anything special at all yet. Performance and functionally everything is fine with one exception. I want more than 1GBE of capacity when copying files between the Storage server/VM's/Admin station.
Port trunks etc. add value if I was talking about multiple simultaneous connections, but I want to improve performance in a single connection.
Looking at the prices of 10GBE switches, I hope to avoid that requirement.
coming across some inexpensive used single port 10GE broadcom NICS (Vsphere/Windows support) with optical transceivers, I picked up 6 of them.
I was hoping to add 2 of these NICS to each ESXi host, and add them to the existing vSwitch in each. This way each ESXi host would have a Vswitch with a few VMs, 1 physical 1GBE port connected to the main switch, 1 physical 10GBE port to go to the OTHER ESXi host, and 1 physical 10 GBE port to connect to storage or admin stations.
Is this going to work or am I out to lunch? I want to avoid VLANS / routing within my lan if at all possible, at least at first.
I see some potential looping issues, but not sre if this is possible.
I currently have a bunch of systems connected to a single physical 16 port GBE switch. Two of these systems are ESXI Hosts. Both ESXi Hosts have VM's loaded, and they each have a single Vswitch that has that systems physical NIC added. In addition I have 1 Windows 2012 R2 server (multi-role storage) with 6x3TB HDD, and 1 Admin station with Windows 7 with 3x2TB HDD
It's all one flat single network, one subnet, no VLANS, no port trunking, no Jumbo frames, or anything special at all yet. Performance and functionally everything is fine with one exception. I want more than 1GBE of capacity when copying files between the Storage server/VM's/Admin station.
Port trunks etc. add value if I was talking about multiple simultaneous connections, but I want to improve performance in a single connection.
Looking at the prices of 10GBE switches, I hope to avoid that requirement.
coming across some inexpensive used single port 10GE broadcom NICS (Vsphere/Windows support) with optical transceivers, I picked up 6 of them.
I was hoping to add 2 of these NICS to each ESXi host, and add them to the existing vSwitch in each. This way each ESXi host would have a Vswitch with a few VMs, 1 physical 1GBE port connected to the main switch, 1 physical 10GBE port to go to the OTHER ESXi host, and 1 physical 10 GBE port to connect to storage or admin stations.
Is this going to work or am I out to lunch? I want to avoid VLANS / routing within my lan if at all possible, at least at first.
I see some potential looping issues, but not sre if this is possible.