I need to implement four HPE ProLiant DL380 machines, two 10 Gb switches for redundancy, and two MSA 2050, where one MSA is offsite for backup purposes - a building across the street. Each host will connect one (or two?) 10 Gb ports of each switch and each switch connected to MSA 2050 redundant controllers using either one or two cables per switch, again for redundancy.
I have been searching for a best practices cabling network diagram but cannot find any that address issue of networking that combine vSphere management tasks, iSCSI, and replication. Can all these things occur via the same network cables?
host 1 -> switch 1
host 1 -> switch 2
host 2 -> switch 1
host 2 -> switch 2
host 3 -> switch 1
host 3 -> switch 2
host 4 -> switch 1
host 4 -> switch 2
switch 1 -> MSA 1 controller 1 port 1
switch 1 -> MSA 1 controller 2 port 1
switch 2 -> MSA 1 controller 1 port 2
switch 2 -> MSA 1 controller 2 port 2
Remote MSA:
switch 1 -> switch 3 -> MSA 2 controller 1 port 1
switch 2 -> switch 4 -> MSA 2 controller 2 port 1
Will this configuration get me vSphere management, iSCSI support, and replication? What improvements could be done?
Thanks,
Kevin
