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by bzabber
Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:32 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: MPIO at Both Ends?
Replies: 5
Views: 3744

Re: MPIO at Both Ends?

My intent on using MPIO on the Target side was to aggregate both links using round-robin. Do I still need to not bother with MPIO on the StarWind server?
by bzabber
Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:25 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: MPIO at Both Ends?
Replies: 5
Views: 3744

Re: MPIO at Both Ends?

The environment I'm building isn't built with too much redundancy so I only have one switch. I would've thought I would've had to have MPIO enabled on both the target and initiator ends but if you guys say so I'll uninstall MPIO from the Target server where StarWind is installed. Thanks for the advi...
by bzabber
Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:38 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: MPIO at Both Ends?
Replies: 5
Views: 3744

MPIO at Both Ends?

I'm setting up MPIO and I want to know whether I have to setup MPIO on both the target and the initiator side or if I only have to setup MPIO on the initiator side? The two technical papers on the webstie are not terribly clear and there seems to be quite a few errors in both documents which can be ...
by bzabber
Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:40 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Using MPIO and NIC Teaming
Replies: 4
Views: 4409

Re: Using MPIO and NIC Teaming

My setup: Starwind server: HP DL 380 G5, connected to a MSA20 2x 1GBE Intel NICs OS: Win2K8 R2 RC Enterprise Ed. (Full) I will have two Hyper-V hosts, each are HP DL380 G5s and have the same type of NICs, two of which will be used for iSCSI traffic. The setup is small and won't be used for productio...
by bzabber
Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:27 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Using MPIO and NIC Teaming
Replies: 4
Views: 4409

Using MPIO and NIC Teaming

Hi folks, I would like to use NIC teaming for my iSCSI Target and because the MS iSCSI Initiator doesn't support NIC teaming I would like to use MPIO to aggregate my links and provide some fault tolerance. Is this setup supported and recommended or should I use MPIO throughout my setup? The iSCSI ta...