Any plans to use Provisioning Stack in ESXi?

[Mehnock]

Hi,

I was just reading about the provisioning stack in ESXi and thought that would be a great stack for Veeam NBD traffic, has anyone tried forcing traffic down this stack (with prior setup of the provisioning stack)?

Also, is it possible to put a 10Gb NIC in the management network portgroup and leave the original NIC in there. Will the NBD traffic during a backup use this faster connection?

[PetrM]

Hi Christopher,

In this article we can see that provisioning stack has nothing to do with NBD:

Supports the traffic for virtual machine cold migration, cloning, and snapshot migration. You can use the provisioning TCP/IP to handle Network File Copy (NFC) traffic during long-distance vMotion.

But if you want to route NBD traffic over a dedicated network, perhaps you could have a look at this note and try the proposed method which should work starting from vSphere 7.

Thanks!

[Mehnock]

Yes I read the documentation and thought this would be a good improvement for VBR to use this stack but really all I needed was to be able to isolate my backup traffic and fortunately I am using vSphere 7 so I just configured my backup network using the way you suggested in the article. We'll see how it goes tonight.