vSphere Network Design

To effectively design a virtual network infrastructure, a design architect must understand the virtual network architecture, including which features are available and how they are configured. This chapter will contain recipes that a design architect can use to design a virtual network architecture that provides the capacity and availability required to support the virtual infrastructure.

The logical network design includes calculating the network capacity (or bandwidth) required to support the virtual machines and determining the capacity that's required to support VMware technologies, such as vMotion and Fault Tolerance. If IP-based storage connectivity is required, the design must account for the networking that's necessary to support storage traffic, as well:

Network design in the vSphere design workflow

In this chapter, we will...