March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
13h 51m
English
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Network design decisions
The following table lists the design decisions for the network choices in the environment:
|
Design decision |
Design justification |
Design implication |
|
A dedicated port group will be used for vSAN network traffic and configuration. |
vSAN traffic has to be shared with other network traffic because an ESXi host only has a single 10 GB dual-ported network card. Hardware has been purchased before a design workshop. |
Single point of failure as there is only a single 10 GB dual-ported NIC. |
|
10 GB networking will be used for the vSAN network so that performance is optimal. |
Increased throughput available to provide peak performance of the environment. |
None. |
|
vSphere Distributed Switches will be used for ... |