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VMWare ESX and ring network topology. Can it be built?
There is a farm of 4 ESX 5.5.0 hosts, each host has two 10Gbit and two 1Gbit interfaces, there are two switches in the Cisco SMB SG500X stack (24x1Gbit + 2x10Gbit ports + 2x10Gbit ports for stacking). Each server is connected by one 10Gbit port to only one switch and two 1Gbit ports to the second switch. And there is an unconnected storage system with 2x10Gbit.
Is it possible to assemble ESX hosts into a 10Gbit ring according to this scheme without using additional equipment:
SG500X1 -- ESX1 -- ESX2 -- ESX3 -- ESX4 -- SG500X2, where -- is a 10Gbit link? And connect the storage system to the remaining 10Gbit ports?
If so, how?
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It is possible, but not necessary - you need to connect each server to two switches with a 10GBE link, and connect the storage system to them.
The ring is a bad idea - a loop, convergence of stp and tyda, do you really need it?
If the requirements for the bandwich are not high, then the storage for 10G, the servers with two links, one per switch (total four links - 4G)
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