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Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying VMware View 4.5
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physical NIC uplink was exclusively assigned to each port.
Figure 4: ESX vSwitch Configuration
We used VLANs to segregate network traffic into different classes (tagged packets) within the Server
LAN. VLAN and port group assignments for the Server LAN (vSwitch0) were assigned as shown in Table
2. Figure 5 shows the logical connection paths for vSwitch0 and vSwitchISCSI.
Port Group VLAN Description
Service Console 101 Service console access network
Virtual Machine Network 102 VM / Server LAN
vMotion (VMkernel) 103 vMotion network
Table 2: Server LAN (vSwitch0) Port Group Assignments