As I'm reading about the recommended settings other companies recommend when using Round Robin multi-pathing in VMware, they are saying to change the IOP limit for changing paths from 1000 to 1. Would you recommend this as well?

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2069356?lang=en_US

I have a total of 4 identical hosts. I intend to use Round Robin - my question is, won't some of the traffic go out over the physical NIC's to the host where the second copy of the volume is, instead of only using the path to the internal storage? Or is that not really an issue? I have 6 10Gb NIC's ...

So I'm getting ready to set up a hyperconverged scenario with Starwinds virtual appliances on several hosts. I assume we set the iSCSI connections up in vmware to use Round Robin MPIO. But, if a VM accesses a volume that resides on the same host, what is the mechanism that causes it to only use the ...