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VMware vSphere and Cisco UCS vNIC Configuration

Configuration of vNIC / Loadbalancing / Failover / QOS

Below is a typical configuration of vSphere ESX vNIC assignment correlating to the UCS Fabric
Interconnect.

Management vMotion Port Fault Production Storage

Port Group Group Tolerance Port Virtual HBA’s
Group Machine
Port Group
UCS Fabric A vNic 0 (Active) vNic 2 vNic 4 (Active) vNic 6 HBA 1
10GB (Standby) (Active) (Active)
UCS Fabric B vNic 1 vNic 3 (Active) vNic 5 vNic 7 HBA 2
10GB (Standby) (Standby) (Active) (Active)
UCS QOS Bronze Silver Gold Best Effort FC
Priority
UCS QOS 0% 11 % 11 % 33% 34 %
Weight %

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Min / Min = 1GBMax Min = 1GBMax Min = 1GBMax Min = Min =

Maxbandwidth = 1GB = 10 GBMax is = 10 GBMax is 6GBMax = 8GBMax =
using both limited to QOS limited to QOS 10 GBMax 10GBMax is
fabrics Priority Priority is limited to limited to
QOS QOS Priority
Priority
VMware Load Route based on N/A N/A dVS = Active
Balancing originating Route based Active(round
virtual port Id on physical Robin)
NIC
loadvSS =
Route based
on
originating
virtual port
Id

VMware Active/Standby Active/Standby Active/Standby Active / N/A

Failover Policy Active
1) Note, that route based on IP hash is not supported by UCS when used with either a VMware
Standard vSwitch or Distributed vSwitch. You can use route based on IP hash when used with a nexus
1000v.

2) With the above configuration the production vNics are both active and separated between two
fabrics. The uplinks from the fabrics should then be configured as a Multi Chassis Ether-channel to the
core switches.

3) By applying UCS QOS policies, there is guaranteed minimum bandwidth assigned per vNic, and
also has the ability to burst higher if is ever needed, but will not affect other vNic’s that have a higher
priority.

4) If a dVS (VMware distributed virtual) switch is used, then the “route based on physical NIC load
“ load balancing algorithm should be used to load balance active/active uplinks to the fabric
interconnects.

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