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maxyardley
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iSCSI default vSwitch/Adapter?

By default which vSwitch and Adapter is my iSCSI initiator using? I haven't configured port binding for it yet but I planning to make the move to 10G here pretty soon. I would like to retain my 1gbps NIC for management only but I concerned that iSCSI will be using this NIC as this was the default setup.

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scott28tt
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Look at your VMkernel ports (assuming you have multiple) on your vSwitches - if one of them is on the same subnet as your iSCSI target that’s the one which will be used, therefore the vmnic uplink for whichever vSwitch that VMkernel port is on.


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scott28tt
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Look at your VMkernel ports (assuming you have multiple) on your vSwitches - if one of them is on the same subnet as your iSCSI target that’s the one which will be used, therefore the vmnic uplink for whichever vSwitch that VMkernel port is on.


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Thanks, Scott. This makes sense.

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