vNetworking Question

tstrip007

I have some hosts at a data center configed with standard vswitches with access to only one subnet. If I wanted these hosts to have access to a different subnet (switches at a different location), a dvswitch could accomplish this right?


We have three host cluster. One host is at site A that has physical access to subnet 172.XX, and the other two hosts at site B that have access to subnet 192.xxx. I need to be able to assign the VMs at site B with 172 addresses without the nics having physical acccess to the 172 switch. Just to be crystal clear..

GSXRules

vDS alone will not help, you need something to move the 172 packets across the 192 network w/o changing them. VXLAN or NSX could do it. vShield Manager doesn't seem to be a standalone product any more, so you'd need vCloud Suite it looks like.

You could maybe set up a VM with on the 192 hosts with a VPN tunnel to the 172 network, create a isolated switch for the 172 VMs (plus the bridge VM) to talk on. You'd need traffic on that network between the hosts (so 172-on-192 VMs don't need to reside on the same host as the bridge VM), a crossover cable could work and not affect your other local traffic.

tstrip007

Ended up vmotioning the vms to the host at site A and physically moving the SAN out of site B to A.

GSXRules

in 9 hours? Damn.