Seperate networks to one Target

harpss1ngh · Mon Dec 23, 2013 6:34 pm

Hi, I have two ESXi hosts connected via 10GBe as well as 1GB on separate networks and two other ESXi hosts connected to the 1Gb network. The 10Gbe is currently used for vMotion. But what I want to do is use the 10Gbe network for the iSCSI target for the hosts with 10GBe (w/1GBe for failover) and 1Gbe for the others. I have the necessary networking in place. The VM with the Starwind Target installed has 2 nics, one for 1GBe network and the other for the 10GBe, currently hosts connect via the 1GBe network. How can I configure the 10GBe network on the target? When I try to create a connection it says there's no service installed.

Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:49 am

For now this can be considered as the test environment only since running on VM is supported in Beta version. for now you can doublecheck with our Best Practices and VMware Networking Best Practices. I have droped couple of links that may be useful for you below:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwin ... ces-manual
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Pra ... ere5.5.pdf

harpss1ngh · Mon Dec 30, 2013 11:39 am

Thanks but I already got it working. Just added a 2nd nic on a different network and connected to the iscsi target via the ip address of that interface. Works fine provided you configure routing

Mon Dec 30, 2013 12:57 pm

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