Greetings,
We're going to be performing a P2V of our current physical server with 3 directly attached iSCSI volumes in its current setup. The VM will have the same 3 directly connected iSCSI volumes.
I'm curious what the best network design for this would be. Here is our current setup:
VHOST1 | vSwitch0 | Management | 10.x.x.71 | 11 | vmnic0 | vmnic4 | |
| | VM Network | | 11 | vmnic1, vmnic5 | | NICs are active/active |
| | vMotion-1 | 192.168.xx.11 | 22 | vmnic4 | vmnic0 | |
| | vMotion-2 | 192.168.xx.12 | 22 | vmnic3 | | For performance enhancement only, therefore no backup NIC necessary |
| vSwitch1 | iSCSI-1 | 192.168.x.210 | | vmnic2 | | |
| vSwitch2 | iSCSI-2 | 192.168.x.211 | | vmnic6 | | |
We have 8 pNICs in these hosts and I'm currently using 7 of them. Our SQL server currently has 4 iSCSI connections, but 2 would probably be sufficient.
We have 2 physical iSCSI switches.
How should I set this up properly for performance and redundancy? My understanding is that for the guest that will be directly connected to the SAN it should have a pNIC dedicated to that.
Thanks for your help!