interfaces_vswitches_and_port_groups
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When considering how networking functions in VMWare (6.5.0 is what i am using) it can seem very confusing, however once you have configured it once it makes a lot of sense, it's just a little confusing at first. Before we look at configuration, | When considering how networking functions in VMWare (6.5.0 is what i am using) it can seem very confusing, however once you have configured it once it makes a lot of sense, it's just a little confusing at first. Before we look at configuration, | ||
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- | vSwitch - This is a virtual switch, this just allows a user to assign virtual ports (called port groups) to a virtual switch. A vSwitch contains one or more port groups and is associated with a physical interface. | ||
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- | Port Groups - Port Groups are a bit like Cisco VLANs. You create a Port Group, and in each Virtual Machine you can assign each of your VM interfaces to a Port Group. | ||
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- | vmnic - This is the name VMWare has assigned to each of your physical interfaces. So on my server I have vmnic0 to vmnic11 (vmnic0 is my connected to my management switch, vmnic7 is connected to my data switch). | + | \\ |
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==== Graphical Overview ==== | ==== Graphical Overview ==== | ||
As a picture paints a thousand words, let us look at what we are dealing with graphically. | As a picture paints a thousand words, let us look at what we are dealing with graphically. | ||
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+ | Imagine for simplicity, you wanted each Physical Interface to map to an interface in your VM. Lets say you have 3 Interfaces in your VM, you would have something like this. | ||
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+ | Now while this is valid, consider that I am passing data from VM1 to VM2, I would need, with 2 data ports per VM, four data ports. What would be better is if I put the data out of VM1 and data in of VM 2 in a port group, that shared a single interface. | ||
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