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Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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Creating custom TCP/IP stacks


TCP/IP stacks provide flexibility in the VMkernel interface design by allowing you to apply specific DNS and default gateway configurations to a VMkernel interface on a host.

There are three preconfigured TCP/IP stacks:

  • Default TCP/IP stack: Supports management traffic

  • vMotion TCP/IP stack: Supports live migration, vMotion, of virtual machines

  • Provisioning TCP/IP stack: Supports cold migration, cloning, and snapshot creation of virtual machines

Custom TCP/IP stacks can be used to handle the network traffic of other applications and services, which may require separate DNS and default gateway configurations.

How to do it…

  1. Create a custom TCP/IP stack on an ESXi host.

  2. Configure DNS, Default Gateway, and Advanced settings on TCP/IP stack.

  3. Assign TCP/IP stack to a VMkernel adapter.

How it works…

Using TCP/IP stacks for VMkernel network traffic provides the following benefits:

  • It separates VMkernel routing tables

  • It provides a separate set of buffers and sockets

  • It isolates traffic...

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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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kim bottu

Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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