I'm in process of replacing our UCS gear that we bought years ago 6140XPs, B200M2s and we are replacing them with 6248s with C240M4s(View) and B200M3s that were used for View and will be retasked for Servers. As you can tell, we have been on UCS since 1.4 code about 4 or so years ago and VMWare shop for 10 years.
We are running this under UCS Manager 2.2(7b). We are currently on ESXi 5.5 and plan on upgrading to ESXi 6.0 running View 6.1 and Vsphere 6.0
My real question is about network design. I currently have 6 nics currently in the profile. A&B path for managment and vmotion, A&B path for inside networks,A&B path for DMZ networks. We have about 30 VLANs defined in our UCS environment. This goes northbound to Cisco VSS 6506 a cable from each interconnect to each of the northbound network gear. Our storage is FC channel attached VMAX to the Cisco MDS 9148 switches.
Do you guys think we have too many virtual nics in our design? We are using standard vswitches in our vmware environment.
Thanks.