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Fleischen
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iSCSI 10gbe and a Virtual Distributed switch.

Hi,

Today I'm running my iSCSI traffic explicit on 2 10gbe nics using a Round Robin Policy and standard port binding. The iSCSI traffic to my SAN is separated on two different VLANS.

iSCSI VLAN 10 192.168.33.0/24

iSCSI VLAN 11 192.168.34.0/24

Now I want to use a distributed switch to run all vmware traffic over my two 10gbe nics, but I can't figure out how to configure it. I want to achieve design option 2 as per this vmware blog (VDS Best Practices - Rack Server Deployment with Two 10 Gigabit adapters (Part 4 of 6) | VMware vSph...)

In the article it says that iSCSI is configured with LBT and both nics are using the active uplink. But how do I apply this to my dual VLAN iSCSI network?

Do you know if there are any configuration example out the that one can take a look at? I have googled but I have not found any.

Any help is much appreciated!

Regards!

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rcporto
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Check if helps: http://thefoglite.com/2012/06/14/configure-software-iscsi-port-binding-on-a-vds-with-dvports/

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Richardson Porto
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Fleischen
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Hi,

But is portbinding iscsi on different vmks compatible with LBT?

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