For the amount of bandwidth we'd be pushing out of the servers, there's no reason to have a dedicated NIC.
Two important notes on this: 1) If all of your servers are on the same physical VMWare host. All inter-server traffic occurs via RAM within the host.nothing hits the NIC. 2) The only advantage I can think of for having a separate NIC is to 'seclude' your Windows2003 server from the UCM network (unless you can VLAN the NIC on the server). My 2 cents, but HTH From: ccie_voice-boun...@onlinestudylist.com [mailto:ccie_voice-boun...@onlinestudylist.com] On Behalf Of ccie8340tx Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:29 PM To: OSL Group Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Question about building CUCM/UC/UCCX/CUPS on VMware Folks: I finally have a windows 2003 server built and getting ready to load vmware. I have read instructions from Mark Hollaway's website and find it very helpful. Thanks Mark. Question now. I am new to vmware and I understand that in order to setup each of the above servers, one needs avirtual switch configured on VMWARE server either on the same host OS NIC nic or a dedicated second NIC So is that the best way to go about this ? Appreciate any ideas on best way to go about this. Thanks,Padhu
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