Ok, long story short, forget about iSER on a vSphere based scenario, I got it :-). I had almost decided to go the Windows way to be able to enable iSER on the sync network, hence offloading CPU workload as much as possible. However, if you tell me overall performance for running VMs is better with t...

Thanks for the answer. In the meanwhile I configured a windows server based cluster so I will be able to enable iSer, at least for the sync link. Without considering the license cost, would you recommend using a Windows Server based deployment over the Linux/Wine approach? One more question which I ...

Hello, I'm trying to configure HA on a 3 node vSphere 7 cluster (Essentials Plus) using StarWind VSAN Free. Networking is based on Mellanox ConnectX3-Pro (for sync) and ConnectX4 (for iSCSI/heartbeat), which are passed-through to the corresponding VSAN nodes. I'm following most of the tips I've read...