How We Found Our Virtual Networking Mojo
Switch and Network Adapter Fault Tolerance Each of the VMware ESX hosts that we had were equipped with dual Network Adapters (NICs). With a typical physical server, two NICs could demonstrate fault tolerance. However, for ESX hosts the dual NIC is not fault tolerant. VMware ESX has three major types of traffic: VMkernel – used for vMotion, which allows host downtime without an interruption of service Service Console – initiates vMotion, serves as the primary venue of managing Virtual Machines...