Hello,
I am preparing to configure new interfaces on our ESX 4.0 hosts for iSCSI traffic. I found the configuration document that explains how to perform the esxcli swiscsi nic add -n command in order to connect the software iSCSI initiator to the iSCSI vmkernel ports. We are currently running a quite unfavorable configuration for vMotion, NFS, and iSCSI: two vmkernel interfaces going out the same vSwitch, one of which is checked for vMotion. We have NFS and iSCSI datastores and I only assume that this traffic is being being shared out the two existing vmkernels along with the one passing vMotion traffic.
My question is, once I execute this esxcli command on the two new vmkernel interfaces will the original vmkernels still handle the NFS or will NFS attempt to use the new vmkernels that are bound to the software iSCSI initiator? Is there any way to configure a vmkernel explicitly for NFS traffic like the esxcli command does for iSCSI?
