As the title suggests, I'm setting up an ESXi host for home use. Currently I have a Server 2012 Essential running with a static IP address, and the DNS is configured as itself (192.168.1.3), with the ...

How can I have this working with an ESXi, if anyone can provide some details on how to create backup networks in this case. The only thing we physically separate is storage, everything else is ...

Backing up your VMware ESXi host configuration is critical for disaster recovery. If hardware fails or settings are accidentally changed, a backup allows you to quickly restore the host to its ...

However, if an IP storage network is involved then you want to segregate storage traffic as that is a constant amount of traffic where VMware VMotion is only used periodically. This setup will give ...

The networks attached to vSwitch0 for Service Console and VMotion work best with VLANs however subnets will also work. In addition, it is important to keep the Storage Network on its own pNIC except ...