Hi All, I have a little confuse about oracle rac networking running on vmware.....
I have 2 physical servers each with 4x10Gbe network(vmnic0, vmnic1, vmnic2, vmnic3) and will create 2 node oracle rac vm each of vm running on different host. From best practice guide I should create 4 vswitch (standard switch), 1 for management, 1 for vmotion, 1 for oracle public(interconnect node network) and 1 for oracle public...but I'm afraid because I only have 1 uplink for each of vswitch(no redundancy)
I have plan to create 1 distributed switch with configuration like this
| Portgroup | Active Uplink | Standby Uplink | Policy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management | vmnic0 | vmnic1 | explicit failover |
| VMotion | vmnic1 | vmnic0 | explicit failover |
| Oracle Public | vmnic2 | vmnic3 | explicit failover |
| Oracle Private | vmnic3 | vmnic2 | explicit failover |
So from what I know, those configuration will add more redundancy than I create 4 standard vswitch with each of 1 uplink....Maybe anyone have any advice is it recommended using that network configuration for Oracle RAC?...Thank you, any advise very welcome