Currently, our ESX Servers have 2 NICs (leaving out the DRAC). One NIC is dedicated to the Console Traffic (ie. vswif0) and for the vmkernel traffic (to access NFS shares and NFS datastores). The corresponding physical switch port (i.e. the port to which this NIC is cabled) is configured as an access port where packets will be tagged at the physical switch with a VLAN ID of 160.
Therefore, we have only one NIC remaining; can this NIC be used for both types of traffic?
1) the NAT traffic and for traffic between the NAIL Server and VCS
2) the traffic between VMs within the same deployed app config that is spread out across multiple ESX Servers
For this second NIC, a vswitch will be created with 2 portgroups. The 1st portgroup will have a VLAN ID of 128 and is for traffic #1. The second portgroup will have a VLAN ID of 4095 and is for Traffic #2. The corresponding physical switch port will be configured as a trunk port to accept ALL VLAN IDs. Will this work? If yes, what additional configuration is required for this switch port.