Management vlan uses system vlan ?

[irek.romaniuk]

Should management vlan use a system vlan ? So for example 10/12 are control/packet vlans respectively and 132 is management vlan :

port-profile type vethernet management
  vmware port-group
  switchport mode access
  switchport access vlan 132
  no shutdown
  system vlan 132
  state enabled

port-profile type ethernet vm-uplink
  vmware port-group
  switchport mode trunk
  switchport trunk allowed vlan 1-3967,4048-4093
  no shutdown
  system vlan 10,12,132
  description Uplink profile for VM traffic
  state enabled

[Robert Burns]

Irek,

Yes - Management should be a system vlan.  Please see this other post for more detail:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3052134#3052134

Regards,

Robert

[irek.romaniuk]

Thank you Robert. Could also the reson for management vlan = system vlan be to maintain VSM and vCenter connectivity ? Management interface is used to establish and maintain the connection between the VSM and VMware vCenter Server

And one more related question ...Also VMware kernel NICs are used for VMware connectivity or SSH or Telnet connections and have to use system VLANs. But I think currently VMware kernel NIC is not on VEM in my installation ..should I migrate it to VEM ?