Configuration Challenge Part 1 Networking in vSphere 4

First challenge is:

How can I implement the customers demands in the hypervisor platform?

The Demands are:

• Hardware redundancy for all network traffice from VM to physical switch
• vLAN tagging
• Seperate LAN traffic for all different traffic streams (IP Based Storage, LAN Traffic, Management Traffic

The goal off the challenge is to show how to configure a part off an virtual infrastructure cross the following platforms, Xenserver, vSphere 4 and Hyper-V 2008 R2. Even if it is not possible we will try to configure the best result we can get.

So this is not a competition but a demonstration off possibilities (or not…).

How do they do it in vSphere 4?

After a default ESX4 host installation i removed the VM Network portgroup,

Configuration Challenge Xenserver, vSphere 4 and Hyper-V 2008 R2 2010

Recently i attended a TechNet – Get Ready for Hyper-V 2008 R2 workshop. I attended because i want to now where Microsoft is compared to VMware on High availability, Dynamic Resource Scheduling, vMotion, storage configuration and network configuration. Although VMware is tattooed across my chest i am open-minded and first off all i am working for the best interest for my customers.
I prefer to do workshops with customers to discuss in detail every aspect off their infrastructure and see how we can seamlessly transfer it to a virtual infrastructure without interruption to their production site. During these workshops i also challenge customers to improve their availability, security and service levels. I discussed several configuration possibilities with Peter Noorderijk one-off my colleagues with a strong focus on Microsoft virtualization and a SCOM specialist.
Peter and I started the Configuration Challenge Xenserver, vSphere 4 and Hyper-V 2008 R2 2010 In Q1 2010 we will challenge each other in building the configuration that will implement the customers demands