ESX4 on hp dl380g6 (4x1gbit on board) + 3x4x1gbit intel 82576 nic, so I have 16x1 gbit.
2 3com 3870 switches for SAN (currently 2 esx 3.5 running with 1 ps3700 on this setup, no jumbo frames for now, 4x1gbit trunk between the 2 switches)
current plan is:
1 on board + 1 on intel for service console
1 on board + 1 on intel for vmotion
I read you can vlan this both services and then use only 2 gbit interfaces with active/passive, but we use different switches for
service console and for vmotion for now.
2 on board and 2x1 on the intels for production lan
I read posts here that we should use different vswitchs and different pnics for esx iscsi and vm ms iscsi san. What is the explenation
for thos suggestion?
So I plan to use:
3x1 on the intels for esx vmfs san
3x1 on the intels for ms iscsi san
I understand how to configure the esx vmfs san (using iscsi san guide and the guide from dell equallogic "TR1049") .
How should I configure the ms iscsi san on the esx side?
I'm going to try jumbo frames on esx vmfs san, should jumbo frames work also with ms iSCSI in VM? Is there any guide? Is there anything
to know about this setup?
Should I create 3 port groups on the ms iscsi san vswitch and assign 1 pnics to 1 port group with no standby pnics?
I would then use 2 vnics in the VMs (plan to run about 2-3 vms with iscsi for now on this esx), each vnic dedicated to one port group?
whole setup:
on board:
1 – vmnic0 – 3.1 Service Console
2 – vmnic1 - 3.1 Vmotion
3 - vmnic2 – 3.1 VLAN1
4 - vmnic3 – 3.2 VLAN2
first intel:
5 – vmnic4 - 3.2 Service Console
6 – vmnic5 - 3.2 Vmotion
7 - vmnic6 - 3.1 SAN1 (vmfs, Switch1)
8 – vmnic7 - 3.2 SAN2 (vm iscsi, Switch2)
second intel:
9 – vmnic8 - 3.3 VLAN3
10 - vmnic9 - 3.4 VLAN4
11 - vmnic10 - 3.3 SAN3 (vmfs, Switch1)
12 – vmnic11 - 3.4 SAN4 (vm iscsi, Switch2)
third intel:
13 – vmnic12 - 3.5 VLAN5
14 – vmnic13 – 3.6 VLAN6
15 – vmnic14 - 3.5 SAN5 (vmfs, Switch2)
16 – vmnic15 - 3.6 SAN6 (vm iscsi, Switch1)
