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Figure 21 Configuration – vSwitch1
A.3.2 Virtual Machines Network configuration
The assignment of the virtual network adapters for each virtual machine was configured as follow:
• One virtual network adapter to access the Public (Corporate) VLAN
• One virtual network adapter to access the Exchange Replication VLAN (only for Mailbox role
servers in a DAG)
• Four virtual network adapters to access the iSCSI network (only for Mailbox role servers)
• MPIO (Multi-path I/O) enabled on the iSCSI network adapters, provided by EqualLogic DSM
module
• One virtual network adapter to access the respective network in order to manage or monitor it
Table 16 summarizes the connection of each virtual NIC to the respective virtual switch and network.
Table 16 Configuration – Virtual machines network adapters
VM
#vNIC
Adapters type
Virtual Switch
Port Group
VLAN ID
DC1
#1
E1000
vSwitch0
Public
200
VCENTER
#1
E1000
vSwitch0
Public
200
#2
E1000
vCenters
100
MBX1 / MBX2
#1
E1000
vSwitch0
Public
200
#2
E1000
Replication
300
#3
VMXNET3
vSwitch1
iSCSI
NONE
#4
VMXNET3
iSCSI
NONE
#5
VMXNET3
iSCSI
NONE
#6
VMXNET3
iSCSI
NONE
HUBCAS1 / HUBCAS2
#1
E1000
vSwitch0
Public
200
LOAD
#1
E1000
vSwitch0
Public
200
MONITOR
#1
E1000
vSwitch0
Public
200
#2
E1000
vSwitch1
iSCSI
NONE