connect 3 esxi servers without switch - eviltoast

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?

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Server A (10.0.0.1)

port1 -> Server B

port2 -> Server C

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Server B (10.0.0.2)

port1-> Server A

port 2-> Server C

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Server C (10.0.0.3)

port1-> Server A

port2-> Server B

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  • Candy_Badger@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

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