How to do it…

These steps will walk you through the process of creating a new vSphere-Distributed Switch that will be capable of multi-NIC vMotion. This assumes that you have two network adapters available for this new vSwitch:

  1. Open up vSphere Web Client.
  2. Log in to your vCenter Server.
  3. Navigate to the Networking section.
  4. Right-click on the cluster and select Distributed Switch, then New Distributed Switch.

 

  1. Call the MultiNICvMotion switch and confirm it's at the correct location. Click on Next.
  2. Select the switch version appropriate to your environment, then click on Next.
  3. Change the number of uplinks to 2. Leave the check next to Create a default port group, then change the port group name to vMotion-01. Click on Next. Click on Finish.
  4. Expand MultiNICvMotion, then right-click on vMotion-01 and select Edit Settings.
  5. In the VLAN section, change the VLAN type to VLAN and assign a VLAN.
  6. In the Teaming and failover section, move Uplink 2 down to Standby uplinks. Click on OK.
  7. Right-click on MultiNICvMotion and select Distributed Port Group, then New Distributed Port Group.
  8. Call the port group vMotion-02 and click on Next.
  9. Change the VLAN type to VLAN and change the VLAN ID to the same ID as step 9. Click on Next. Click on Finish.
  10. Right-click on vMotion-02 and select Edit Settings.
  11. In the Teaming and failover section, move Uplink 1 down to Standby uplinks. Click on OK.

Now we need to add hosts to the vSphere-Distributed Switch. Edit the switch at the host level and assign IP addresses to the port groups, then follow these steps:

  1. From the Networking view, right-click on MultiNICvMotion and select Add and Manage Hosts.
  2. Select the Add Hosts task. Click on Next.
  3. Click on the New Hosts button and add your hosts to the list. Click on Next.
  4. Check the Manage physical adapters and Manage VMkernel adapters tasks, then click on Next.
  5. From the NICs listed, select the two you want to assign to MultiNICvMotion and click on the Assign uplink button. Assign the first NIC to Uplink 1 and the second to Uplink 2. Repeat this for each host. Click on Next.
  6. On the Manage VMKernel network adapters page, select the first server and then click on New adapter.
  7. Choose Select an existing network and then browse to select vMotion-01. Click on Next.
  8. Enable the vMotion service, then click on Next.
  9. Set the IP address and subnet mask and click on Next. Click on Finish.
  10. Repeat steps 6-9 for vMotion-02.
  11. Repeat steps 6-10 for any other servers.
  12. Click on Next, then Next, then Finish.
  13. You can view the settings of MultiNICvMotion at the host level by going back to Hosts and Clusters. Click on the host, then go to Configure | Networking | Virtual switches:

Now you have a multi-NIC vMotion Network.

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