VIC 1280 and VIC 1240

[kkp1]

Hi Experts,

when i connect new Mlom (1240) with Vic 1280 on b200 M4 it shows 2 ports on Mlom and 2 ports on vic.

I it by design or there is some configuration mismatch.

is there any benefit using mlom (1240) with vic 1280.

Regards

k

[Wes Austin]

UCSM should evenly distribute the vNIC/vHBA across both adapters. If you have some specific use case in which you require certain vNIC/vHBA to be on certain adapters, you can configure a placement policy accordingly. There is nothing wrong with the current placement.

[kkp1]

Thanks Austin,
Always got quick reply from you.
What is best Practice use case with ESxi 6.0 and these adapters (should use UCSM failover for each vnic or should place individual vnic on differnt FI.) Like for ESxi Mgmt vnic (vnic1 on FI-A) (vnic2 on FI-B) for vmotion vnic (vnic-1 on FI-A) (vnic-2 on FI-B).

How we can use NIC Teaming with Nexus 1K.

Thanks
k

[Wes Austin]

You can use either Fabric Failover in UCSM (allowing UCS to failover the NICs in a link down scenario) or OS/Hypervisor teaming (allow ESXi to control failover in software). This is strictly preference, but sometimes people would prefer to leave it up to software vs hardware.

If you use Fabric Failover, dont have a vNIC for A side and vNIC for B side. This will cause issues, just allow the UCS to move the NIC accordingly.

Otherwise, yes you create vNIC on A and B for mgmt, vmotion, NFS, etc and then hypervisor will move the traffic when it detects link down scenario.

Check out this link for teaming info with 1000v:

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/support/landing-pages/virtual-support-day-best-practices-virtual-networking-june-2012.pdf