Can’t you use VLANs in ESXi? Usually with virtualisation you would not use the actual interfaces as such, but VLANs that are defined to be present on the trunk from the connected switch port.
Be6k comes with two Nic port, one way of doing is assigning one port for CUCM,CUC.Expressway that means the port will be in UC vlan. second port will be configured as DMZ vlan.
- Vm network is used for UC applications and this network use Be6k's first network port to connect with Cisco switch. and on Cisco switch port it's configured with UC vlan.
- vm network 2 is used for Expressway second NIC which connect with DMZ vlan.
Below mentioned is the Expressway E network settings.
And Expressway configurations as mentioned below.
other way is using trunk configurations and do the switching in Vm switch(but I never tried it).
in my case, expressway E Nic 1 and all UC applications are in UC vlan. Expressway- E NIC 2 in DMZ zone.
for your case, u need to try Trunk configuration with configuration in Vm switch. But I never tried it.
You would need to use vSwitches in ESXi defined for the host. Below is an example of how we have this setup on one of our UCS hosts.
Apart from these two vSwitches that carries the UC traffic there is also a switch that is used for ESXi management.
You will also need to define the networks on the ESXi hosts.
These comes from the trunks that is defined for the connection to the switch infrastructure in your DC. There is nothing special with these, it's just a normal defined trunk on the switch port(s) that connects the physical server to your data center network.
Two things.
- I have quite limited knowledge in French.
- My expertise does not include VMware. Recommend you to seek help with proper configuration.
You should get one or two vSwitches, name them vSwitch1 and 2 for simplicity. On these you tie each one to one of your physical interfaces, or just have one vSwitch tied to both the interfaces for redundancy and speed bundling. On the interface(s) you carry across the information about VLANs from your switching environment via a switch port trunk to the VMware host. In VMware you need to define the VLANs and tie these to your vSwitch(s). See my other post with details on how you do that in VMware.
You cannot add same Nic in two vm switch. AFAIK you need to do trunk configuration on Cisco switport and play with vlan on Vmware. I never tried this configuration. you may need to seek help from VMware experts.
Have a look at this document for how setup of VLANs works in VMware. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-7225A28C-DAAB-4E90-AE8C-795A755FBE27.html
I assume you know how to configure a switch port to be a trunk? If not there are plenty of documentation for this on cisco.com.
