I noticed in one of the guides they reocmmend that you use two different vmkernal ports with two different subnets to load balance an acitve/active storage aray. Is the two different subnets a requirement. If so, why? Our entire storage solution is currently one on subnet and doing some modifications to it is not an option at this time.
hurdle wrote:
I noticed in one of the guides they reocmmend that you use two different vmkernal ports with two different subnets to load balance an acitve/active storage aray. Is the two different subnets a requirement. If so, why? Our entire storage solution is currently one on subnet and doing some modifications to it is not an option at this time.
For many vendors, it's a SAN vendor recommendation.
Follow your vendor's recommendations, if they recommend using a single subnet then you should be fine.
Have a read through this blog post article is it would answer your question: http://paulgrevink.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/configure-vmware-esxi-4-1-networking/
Best wishes and hope this helps.
hurdle wrote:
I noticed in one of the guides they reocmmend that you use two different vmkernal ports with two different subnets to load balance an acitve/active storage aray. Is the two different subnets a requirement. If so, why? Our entire storage solution is currently one on subnet and doing some modifications to it is not an option at this time.
For many vendors, it's a SAN vendor recommendation.
Follow your vendor's recommendations, if they recommend using a single subnet then you should be fine.
Can you have a look of Cormac Hogan blog and I hope it helps you.