VMkernel ports

To enable our ESXi server to communicate over the network, we have to configure the following VMkernel ports:

VMkernel port name

IP address

Port group

Vmk1

172.16.2.1

vMotion

Vmk2

192.168.100.11

iSCSI 1

Vmk3

192.168.100.12

iSCSI 2

 

These can be seen in the following screenshot:

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