Looking for NFS Best Practices with only 4 NICS - Isilon

[clayinatl]

working on setting up 5.0 with HP BL490 blades with 10GB uplinks (no flex 10) to a new Isilon Cluster via NFS but the 490s only have 4 nics.  what is best practices for only 4 NICS?

I'm thinking:

- first 2 nics

   vmotion - nic 1 active / nic 0 standby

   mgmt - nic 0 active / nic 1 standby

   vm networks - nic 0/1 team

- second 2 nics

   NFS - nic 0/1 team - Any special team?

thanks.

[vmwarefc]

Hi, claynatl,

You can use them in this way.

First 2 nics mgmt nic 

0 active /1 standby

Second 2 nics for vmotion,nfs,VM:   nic teaming

NFS  vmkernel port -  VLAN 1

vmotion vmkernel port - VLAN 2

VM group - VLAN 3

Thanks,

Zhifeng