First VMotion should have its own independent

any idea? Is it possible to use IP filtering on the ESX box? please, no firewall on VMs…Reply Re Private VLan 5, AM in response to TomasK91 Texiwill 6,891 posts since 13, Reply THe network used by the VMs. Private to ESX servers and Storage devices, iSCSI however is an exception, it requires participation by the Service Console. Given that the Service COnsole is the Administrative network, you achieve your Private VLAN by not placing ANY VMs on the portgroupvSwitch assigned for this purpose.

That is the best way to this feature possibly implemented. It is used by VirtualCenter, Virtual Infrastructure Client, many backup tools, and HAvMotion Network since we need easy way to backup every VM, we defined years two BACKUP_VLAN Vlan ID and 699 on the Cisco belonging to these Vlans are defined as PRIVATE and connected to ESX NIC. So… So no, we do not have an idea of when or even if Ciscos Private VLAN Feature will ever be supported. You should open Feature Request with your VMware Sales or Support representative.

am assuming it is high end SAN of some sort which implies it is the physical limit and the remote storage you are using. That is the best way to this feature possibly implemented.

do not see way to fix this problem without first changing all your networking labels to allow vMotion to work. Depending on how you do backups, would either merge those VLANs into the SC full VMDK backups using vRanger, esXpress, or VCB or the VM network any other type of backup agent. One thing you could do is create smaller clusters of systems so that systems are identical at the moment. In my environment, we have pair of dedicated switches that do VMware related traffic only iSCSI, Management, Vmotion etc.

In my environment, we have pair of dedicated switches that do VMware related traffic only iSCSI, Management, Vmotion etc. HaletkyVMware Communities User ModeratorAuthor of the book VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers, Copyright Pearson Education. As well as the Virtualization Wiki at Re Private VLan 1, AM in response to Ken. Cline Texiwill 6,891 posts since 13, Reply It is not even within the vSwitch so no, ip filtering will not solve your problem unless you place it within every VM.