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Figure 17 Infrastructure, Management, and vMotion VLAN connectivity
The infrastructure network was divided into three VLANs:
• Infrastructure VLAN
The infrastructure server which hosts Citrix Web Interface, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL
Server, License server, and VMware vCenter was configured with a dedicated VLAN.
• Management VLAN
A dedicated VLAN was configured for management traffic of all the ESXi servers and virtual
machines shown in Figure 17.
• vMotion VLAN
The vMotion traffic is routed on a dedicated VLAN on the same network. The virtual machines
in the VMHA cluster might migrate from one ESXi server to other in case of a server failure, but
this is a rare occurrence and the vMotion traffic is expected to be low