Hi,
Currently I am putting together what I need on a shoestring budget to get a redundant network...
We currently have 2 non-managed 1Gb switches that I would like to make for a fail over on our vSphere network...
Our current setup is as follows:
2 ESXi servers with 4 NIC's each. 2x management, 2x VM data (no current vMotion or other cool tricks in place)
1 switch which all ethernets plug into.
1 Cisco ASA 5505
Now, what I would like to do:
2 ESXi servers with 4 NIC's each. 2x management, 2x VM data
2x Switches with 1 of each team in each switch. The idea is that if the switch drops out the other connection will be still running and no network connectivity will be lost... with a uplink between the switches.
I know the Cisco is capable of creating a failover port so this isn't a problem at the moment.
Techincally my theory should work - however I'm not sure how the vSphere teaming works.. would plugging into multiple switches cause lost packets?
Thanks in advance.