Creating a Management Network and Storage network

[araczek]

Running VMware in a VMware Workstation for script development. I have 2 ESXI 6.7 servers and a FreeNAS server. As is done in VMware I want to use one NIC in
FreeNAS for management traffic and another for storage traffic. I previously had this working on the management interfaces and had some instability. So I want to use dual NICs. I just can't figure out what IP addressing to use on the 2nd NIC in FreeNAS and how to direct traffic through that interface.

It's a chicken or the egg thing (to me anyway). I can configure ESXi easily enough but how do I know what IP's to use?

...Alan

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

If this is your own private network, you pick them yourself. The ranges dedicated for this are:

• 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
• 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
• 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255

Most home networks use some part of the 192.168.x.y range. The most important point to consider is: one network, one address range. So if you run e.g. 192.168.0.x for management you cannot use any part of that for a separate storage network. Pick a different one like 192.168.1.x and then e.g. .1 for your FreeNAS and .2 for your ESXi.