Hello, we just built out our MPIO connection to our EqualLogic array. It consist of three physical nics and three vmkernels using Round Robin.
During the instructions we bound the vmkernel nics to the esx software iscsi adapter and we choose to override vswitch failover.
With that in mind what happens if we would use the same vswitchs to point our ESX server to a NFS datastore on the same subnet and not define round robbin on that nfs datastore.
1. How would the traffic look? Would it just use what ever is in the vswitch or does this bonding of vkernel change things?
2. In addition would it make sense to enable MPIO to the nas also? Is MPIO only for vmfs and for it to be worth it do i need more then one nic on the NFS Nas?
3. And lastly adding the Nas to the same vswitch and physical nics as our san wont be an issue if we have plenty of bandwidth on both correct?
thanks
