vmkernal ports

[4101]

this is a noob question.... should you trunk all vmkernal ports ?

[vmroyale]

Hello and welcome to the communities.

It depends on the setup and the requirements, but you certainly don't have to. What are you working with and/or trying to accomplish?

[4101]

ive just been looking around and there is so many way to do this but there is no wrong and right way. Is there a best pratice or what determines good design ? what made me start thing of good design is that i have trunked all ports to the esx host and iscsi works without haviing the vmkernal port setup... why is that ?

[4101]

maybe im answering my question . . .

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should i be binding the iscsi vmkernal ports to the vmnics. if that is true should all vmkernal ports be binded to specific vmnics ?

[aravinds3107 · Accepted solution]

Take a look at the below for some best practise

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-multipathing-configuration-software-iSCSI-port-bind...

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/09/a-multivendor-post-on-using-iscsi-with-vmware-vs...