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December 4th, 2012 05:00
Maximum server nics for iscsi
Hi!
I was having a read through the equallogic configuration guide and noticed the folllowing
"membersessions" should be set to the number of network ports dedicated to SAN subnet (maximum of 4).
Does this mean that say if a server has 10x1gb nics, only 4 of them can be used for the iscsi traffic?
Currently we have a couple of equallogics (ps4000's with 2x1gb nics) and looking to get a third. I was thinking that we'd ideally match the number of active ports from sans to the number of active iscsi ports on the server accessing the storage. Eg 2 ports per 4000 and 4 for the new 6100 (8 total)
Could someone clarify whether i understood that correctly?
thanks in advance!
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December 5th, 2012 06:00
Hi don, thanks for the reply,
I realised i've copied the wrong line, meant to copy the equivalent line from the windows secion above the vmware, i guess the same principles apply
“Max Sessions per volume slice” should be set to the number of network ports dedicated to SAN subnet (maximum of 4).
Both the current sans are shared through one windows file server, and the plan is to share the third through it too. So in theory the server would have say 8 connections to the san switch, which would then have 8 connections to the various sans.
It wouldn't be a case of needing all 8 nics connected to each san, but more that all 8 nics could be utilitsed between them (so 2 of them could connect to one san, 2 to another etc)
what i'm trying to work out is wether that statement means that you can have a max of 4 connections per volume or 4 connections used for iscsi on the server?
thanks again