Dedicated network interface for Backups of our VMs on vSphere 6 VSAN Cluster
Hey guys, we are currently setting up our new and dedicated BE 2016 server to back up our VMs on a vSphere 6 VSAN cluster. In order to speed backups up, we would like to utilize a dedicated 10 Gbit connection for our backups. Here's a brief overview of our intended setup: Dedicated Backup Server: We have a Windows 2012 R2 machine with 2 NICs. The first NIC is a 1-Gbit interface, usedfor management traffic and operating in its own (Managament)-VLAN with IP 192.168.200.41. The second interface is 10G and dedicated for Backup-traffic, also in its own (Backup)-VLAN with IP-address 192.168.180.20. On the server we have Backup Exec 2016 installed. VMware Cluster: Our cluster consists of 3 vSphere 6 hosts and a vsan cluster.Our servers are attached via 2 10G interfaces each and some dedicated 1G NICs. The 10G interfaces areVLAN-trunks over a "LAG" andused for VM-traffic on different VLANs and some vmkernel-traffic, like VSAN-replication. The 10G uplinks are "attached" to a dvSwitch. The dedicated 1G NICs are used for Management of the ESXi-servers and also for vCenter, which also operates in our 192.168.200.X network segment. These uplinks are attached to "local" vSwitches. So,our plan for backing up the virtual machines is to utilize the 10G interfaces of the backup server. However, it is notclear to us how we can achieve that with our intended network structure and Backup Exec 2016. I've read a lot of documentation and message board posts, but I still don't knowhow this can be done. As our backup server and vCenter are in the same (Management)-network, BE2016 uses the 1G connection to connect to vCenter and to create snapshots, which is fine. But, we would then like BE2016read and write the data over our 10G interface and the VLAN-trunk of our VMware servers. Any chance this can be done? Appreciate any help, thanks in advance! Cheers Sascha1.4KViews0likes1Comment