connect 3 esxi servers without switch

posted 11 months ago

I have 3 servers with dual nic 10gb card. can i connect them directly with cross cable without the need of switch and they will be able to ping each other in same network?

I want to create a vmotion virtual switch in ESXi and put both port, will ESXi find how to get each of the servers by the right interface?

Server A (10.0.0.1)

port1 -> Server B

port2 -> Server C

Server B (10.0.0.2)

port1-> Server A

port 2-> Server C

Server C (10.0.0.3)

port1-> Server A

port2-> Server B

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Candy_Badger@alien.topB

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10 months ago

I prefer using separate subnets for different network adapters. In any case, create vswitch and vmkernel for each network port and configure IPs.

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