User`s guide

182 XgOS User’s Guide • September 2014
ESX Configuration
The ESX server in the following figure has four virtual machines (Service Console,
bob, fred, joe). Each VM has Ethernet interfaces (eth0 ... 20500), a vSwitch, and
belongs to a Virtual Machine Network. VNICs will appear as “vnic1”,
“vnic2”,”vnic3”, and so on, up to a “vnic32”. You can have any number of vSwitches
(vSwitchN), and any given vSwitch can associate with any number of vNICs.
▼ Enable vNIC Communication Between the ESX
Server and the Oracle Fabric Interconnect
Use the following steps to enable vNIC communication between the ESX server and
Oracle Fabric Interconnect: