UCS Design Best practice for vMotion

hi,
We are deploying a new UCS domain with 8 chassis and 50/60 B200M3 for installed an VMware infrastructure 5.0
For each ESXi, we need :
2 vNIC dedicated to Management Network
2 vNIC dedicated to vMotion
4 vNIC dedicated to srv
These vNIC will be configured into Template Service Profile deployed to all B200M3.
For each pair of vNIC, a vNIC used fabric A, a vNIC used fabric B.
We could have vMotion between all server.
The VMware vSwitch will used either vNIC_A or vNIC_B such as VM and loadbalancing algo.
Do we have a design in order to confine the vMotion vlan to UCS domain ?  I means to not trunk dedicated vMotion Vlan on uplink
Many  thks for your advice.
Best regards.
Nicolas.

No need to change anything on UCSM side for the vMotion requirment. All required is that the vmnic which corresponds to FI-A is set as primary on each host for the VMkernel used for vMotion.  This keeps all vmotion traffic local to one FI without leaving the system.
At any time if you lost an adapter, IOM or FI, they traffic would failover to the standby vmnic assigned to the vmkernel - so you will have full redundancy - you're simply setting a sticky "preference" of which link to use.  In the case where you lost IOM-A on Chassis 2, that VMotion traffic would then traverse the northbound network to reach the other fabric - not a big deal as vMotion is not that bandwidth demanding.
Robert

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    Virtualized Domain Controller Cloning Test Guidance for Application Vendors,
    Support for using Hyper-V Replica for virtualized domain controllers.
    Again, thanks for any information, best practices, cookie cutter or otherwise that you can share.
    Chas.

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