Esxi setup

[Thomas Beeston <th...@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

Quick question, I'm wondering is it possible to setup the VCL using only one NIC (my two esxi hosts only have 1 NIC in them). I was thinking of having the management mode running on the low end esxi host as a VM and the compute running on the higher spec esxi host. 

Trying to think how this could work and the vswitch/physical setup.

Tom

Re: Esxi setup

[António Aragão <aa...@di.uminho.pt>]

Thomas Beeston,

My VCL setup only have 1 esxi host with 1 NIC. What is your problem at the
moment ?

Thanks.

2016-03-06 23:22 GMT+00:00 Thomas Beeston <th...@googlemail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Quick question, I'm wondering is it possible to setup the VCL using only
> one NIC (my two esxi hosts only have 1 NIC in them). I was thinking of
> having the management mode running on the low end esxi host as a VM and the
> compute running on the higher spec esxi host.
>
> Trying to think how this could work and the vswitch/physical setup.
>
> Tom




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Re: Esxi setup

[Andy Kurth <an...@ncsu.edu>]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Thomas Beeston <
thomas.beeston@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I understand it that since I'm using free esxi and not a vcentre server
> ssh is needed for provisioning, is that correct?
>

Yes, with the free version VMware disables some of the management
capability available via the vSphere SDK so SSH is required.

-Andy

Re: Esxi setup

[Thomas Beeston <th...@googlemail.com>]

Thanks for the replies guys. I figured that one out (some of my hosts have 3 networks, an additional to simulate another topology in the lab using Vyos virtual routing) and I was getting confused but think I have it now. 

I created another vmkernel port group for management traffic on the esxi hosts and enabled ssh on these and set these in the same subnet as the private network. The Centos VM running on esxi host 1 can ssh to esxi1 and 2 no problem.

I understand it that since I'm using free esxi and not a vcentre server ssh is needed for provisioning, is that correct? 
 I haven't installed vcl yet, was wanting to get the networks setup before I did. Looking forward to trying the new install script tonight.

Tom

> On 8 Mar 2016, at 15:15, Andy Kurth <an...@ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Yes, this is entirely possible and common.  You'll just need to define 2 virtual machine networks on each host for the public and private networks.  These VM networks can reside on the same virtual switch using the same physical NIC.
> 
> Regards,
> Andy
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Beeston <th...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Quick question, I'm wondering is it possible to setup the VCL using only one NIC (my two esxi hosts only have 1 NIC in them). I was thinking of having the management mode running on the low end esxi host as a VM and the compute running on the higher spec esxi host.
>> 
>> Trying to think how this could work and the vswitch/physical setup.
>> 
>> Tom
> 

Re: Esxi setup

[Andy Kurth <an...@ncsu.edu>]

Yes, this is entirely possible and common.  You'll just need to define 2
virtual machine networks on each host for the public and private networks.
These VM networks can reside on the same virtual switch using the same
physical NIC.

Regards,
Andy

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Thomas Beeston <
thomas.beeston@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Quick question, I'm wondering is it possible to setup the VCL using only
> one NIC (my two esxi hosts only have 1 NIC in them). I was thinking of
> having the management mode running on the low end esxi host as a VM and the
> compute running on the higher spec esxi host.
>
> Trying to think how this could work and the vswitch/physical setup.
>
> Tom