In the process of port binding, you create two virtual VMkernel adapters for each physical network. You then associate the VMkernel adapters with the software iSCSI storage adapter created in the following steps. Create the distributed port groups first.
About this task
NOTE:The key is to avoid a network conflict with the VSAN. The uplink1/uplink2/vmnic0 description in the following procedure is suitable for most standard
VxRail installations. Some
VxRail models have extra Ethernet ports. You can use those ports as an alternate configuration. Replace uplink1 and uplink2 with the proper uplink numbers according to the extra ports.
Steps
Log in to the vSphere Client as an authorized user.
In the vSphere Client, click the home icon and go to the
Networking configuration page.
Highlight
VMware HCIA Distributed Switch and then right-click it to create a new distributed port group.
The
New Distributed Port Group window is displayed.
In the
Select name and location window enter the port group name.
A name containing “uplink1” is recommended.
In the
Configure settings window enter the general properties and specify the related VLAN ID if you are using a VLAN.
In the
Ready to complete window, review your entries and then click
Finish to complete the port group creation.
The new distributed port group is created.
In the
Home list, right-click the new portgroup and select
Edit Settings.
The
Edit Settings window is displayed.
If the port speed is 10Gb, change
Traffic Shaping for the iSCSI portgroup as follows:
Set
Ingress traffic shaping: status to
Enabled,
Average bandwidth(kbit/s) to
1048576,
Peak bandwidth (kbit/s) to
1048576, and
Burst size (KB) to
102400.
Set
Egress traffic shaping: status to
Enabled,
Average bandwidth(kbit/s) to
1048576,
Peak bandwidth (kbit/s) to
1048576, and
Burst size (KB) to
102400.
Change
Teaming and failover for the iSCSI portgroup as follows:
Keep
uplink1 as the
Active uplink.
Move the other uplinks to
Unused.
Create the second portgroup by repeating steps 3 through 9 with following value changes:
In step 4, a name containing "uplink2" is recommended.
In step 9, keep
uplink2 as the
Active uplink.
Results
Set up of the two portgroups is complete.
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