VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Use the vMotion TCP/IP stack for vSphere vMotion traffic.

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: Use the vMotion TCP/IP stack for vSphere vMotion traffic.

Resolution

Design Justification: By using the vMotion TCP/IP stack, vSphere vMotion traffic can be assigned a default gateway on its own subnet and can go over Layer 3 networks.

Design Implication: In the vSphere Client, the vMotion TCP/IP stack is not available in the wizard for creating a VMkernel network adapter wizard at the distributed port group level. You must create the VMkernel adapter directly on the ESXi host.

This design decision is supported in the following Domains. 
•    Management Domain
•    VI Workload Domain

This design decision is supported on VCF version 4.1 and higher. 

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Additional Information

Please reference the VMware Cloud Foundation version you are running and if this design decision is applicable to you. 

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