Mastering VMware vSphere™ 4

C.3. Virtual Networking Best Practices

You can find the configuration details regarding the virtual networking best practices shown in the following list in Chapter 5:

• Plan the virtual-to-physical networking integration.

• Maximize the number of physical network adapters (Ethernet ports) to provide flexibility in the virtual networking architecture.

• Separate Service Console, iSCSI, NAS, VMotion, Fault Tolerance (FT), and virtual machine traffic across different physical networks pending the availability of network adapters, or use a VLAN architecture to segment the traffic.

• Create port groups with VLAN IDs to provide security, segmentation, and scalability to the virtual switching architecture.

• Construct a virtual networking security policy for virtual ...