The most common install for iSCSI would be so traffic between the hosts and the storage isn't routed, since a router there could reduce performance. If you had VLAN 10(192.168.1.0/24) iSCSI, ...
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The most common install for iSCSI would be so traffic between the hosts and the storage isn't routed, since a router there could reduce performance. If you had VLAN 10(192.168.1.0/24) iSCSI, VLAN 20 (192.168.2.0/24) ESX MGMT, and VLAN 30 (192.168.3.0/24) Guest VMs, and VLAN 40 (192.168.4.0/24) vMotion a deployment scenario could be something like : NIC1 - vSwitch 0 - MGMT VMK(192.168.1.10) active, vMotion VMK(192.168.4.10) standby NIC2 - vSwitch 1 - Guest VM port group (VLAN30) active NIC3 - vSwitch 2 - iSCSI VMK1(192.168.1.10) active NIC4 - vSwitch 2 - iSCSI VMK2(192.168.1.11) active NIC5 - vSwitch 1 - Guest VM port group (VLAN30) active NIC6 - vSwitch 0 - MGMT VMK(192.168.2.10) standby, vMotion VMK(192.168.4.10) active You would place you storage target on VLAN 10 with an IP of something like 192.168.1.8 and iSCSI traffic would remain on that VLAN. The default gateway configured in ESXi would be the router on VLAN 20 with an ip of something like 192.168.2.1. Hope the scenario helps lay out some options. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:16 PM, vctl <communities-emailer@vmware.com>