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August 9th, 2018 06:00
Multipathing with VMware vsphere 6.7 and MD3220i with 4 NICs
Hi,
we have some old vSphere Hosts running in our data center.
At the moment I am in the process of migration to two new vSphere Hosts with 4 GBit NICs for iSCSI usage each. Additionally we have a MD3220i with 4 NIC ports for each storage controller.
I want to have the 4 x GBit Speed Multipathing for each host with the option to automatically go to the failsafe to the second controller.
Additionally I have bought two Gigabit switches for HA.
As far as I have understood I need
- two links from the host to the first switch and two links to the second switch
- each link on the host has two kernel ports on one vSwitch (with two IPs, one network from the 1st storage controller port the other from the 2nd)
- The Switches need two links to the first storage controller and two to the second storage controller
- the same applies to the other two ports of the host
Is that the preferred configuration for 4 x speed multipathing?


DELL-Josh Cr
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August 9th, 2018 10:00
Hi,
That configuration looks fine to me.