Creating custom TCP/IP stacks
TCP/IP stacks provide flexibility in the VMkernel interface design by allowing you to apply specific DNS and default gateway configurations to a VMkernel interface on a host.
There are three preconfigured TCP/IP stacks:
- Default TCP/IP stack: Supports management traffic
- vMotion TCP/IP stack: Supports live migration, vMotion, of virtual machines
- Provisioning TCP/IP stack: Supports cold migration, cloning, and snapshot creation of virtual machines
Custom TCP/IP stacks can be used to handle the network traffic of other applications and services, which may require separate DNS and default gateway configurations.
How to do it…
- Create a custom TCP/IP stack on an ESXi host.
- Configure DNS, Default Gateway, and Advanced settings on ...
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