Design of network for VMware/iSCSI SAN

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• design for the iSCSI SAN review

  Hi all

  I intend to implement a storage shared in our vmware infrastructure. And we'll buy DELL or iSCSCI SAN NETAPP.

  Could someone pls review the design of SAN attached. Please note that we do not have a vCenter in the environment. And also we have not yet finalized on behalf of initiator SCSI, whether to use a software or iSCSI HBA for this purpose. Is it worth investing in the hardware initiator. Please suggest.

  Kind regards

  Nithin

  To use several vmks iSCSI, you cannot assign two network adapters to the iSCSI vmks.

  You cannot have an active nic by vmk and the other the vSwitch network adapter must be moved down to "unused controller. Then you can bind to port in the software iSCSI hba adapter. It is the only way to achieve real multichannel, load balancing and failover for multiple iSCSI vmks.

  Here's a KB on how do: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2045040

  But if you google, it has quite a few tutorials with pictures detailed, etc..

  Tim

• solution for ESX iSCSI SAN

  Hello.

  We are looking into getting a SAN iSCSI for ESX.

  On readers, y at - there a big difference between sata and sas and sas 10K vs 15K?

  How iSCSI performance are compared to the SAN fiber?

  Can you guys recommend an iSCSI solution right?

  Excerpt from Dell PS4000 and it seems to be a good product.

  (On players, is there a big difference between sata and sas and sas 10K vs 15K?)

  Yes, 15 k SAS are faster and a bit more expensive, but worth it!

  (How iSCSI performance are compared to the fiber SAN?)

  ISCSI SAN is not as fast as the fiber, but compared to the local drive is a big improvement for your applications, users, etc.

  (You guys can recommend a good iSCSI solution?)

  Personally, I think Dell equallogic are great! PS600XV is what I put in place.

• Design of network for a shared Business Center

  Hello

  I was asked to design a new shared business center network, but I need help.

  The scope is:

  -a building, access Internet 1

  -15 private offices

  -each Board can have up to 4 LAN connections

  -each office can have its own local network VIRTUAL (with Internet access)-max of VLAN 15 online

  -some offices can be merged (1 VLAN for many offices)

  -VLAN only have access to the Internet, but must be strictly isolated from others

  -DHCP must be available for each VIRTUAL local area network

  -WiFi must be available everywhere, but each user can connect only to its own LAN VIRTUAL (ID and PW) provided

  -management of connectivity and VLAN must be as simple as possible (GUI)

  What do I need put implement this configuration?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Hello

  A high level, you might want to switch support VLAN to connect and separate all individual offices. You could master this (3750/3560) switch to a Cisco ASA firewall, which, in turn, you may have interfaces on the trunk, a link on the side of the ASA. 1 for each VLAN configured. ACL security could be applied to each Sub Interface as well as a DHCP server for each VLAN can be configured on the SAA also. I would be not actually laid the present and let tenants handle their own LAN 'each office can have its own VIRTUAL LAN. " This would add unnecessary complexity.

  Wireless, can be as sophisticated as the installation of a wireless LAN Controller and several APs for centralized management of the APs. You can assign identifiers VLAN to different BSSIDs. Or you can use 1-2 Points of access and manage them individually. Cisco Aironet 2600 has GUI and allow VLAN tags by SSID. A site for the wireless range would be necessary.

  Haven install some of these types of networks, the above is all very high-level and depend on specific reuqirements, but should be a good starting point for you.

  Concerning

  Stephen

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• Recommendation of RAID for Equallogic iSCSI SAN?

  We look at a Dell/Equallogic PS6000E with 16 drives of 1 TB, it connects to our servers ESX 2-3 (about 15 virtual machines running) and to a SQL cluster (mainly a SharePoint service workload size).  Dell recommends RAID5, which would give us ~ 12 useful to.  Frankly, if we had used 8TB, that would be fine.  Any recommendations for the best RAID for Equallogics level?

  Thank you

  Chad

  If you can really just 8 to, I must say raid 10...   Reference Dell suggests always raid 5 no matter what.

  Now best practices is to create several groups of disks with different raid levels for the taste of storage at your fingertips.

  You are going to have to make some calls to judgment on how to implement.     I suggest you test conversions PtoV tour and play with the config some before deciding, but I know that it is now possible in most cases.

  Dell has an excellent white paper on the table.  It's for the MD3000i, but the raid types and most other info still apply to the DAS or san during raids.

  http://www.Dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/pvault_md3000_whitepaper.PDF

• Which TCP port is used for VMWare Infrastructure Client?

  Hello, my ESXi server sits on the private network, and I'm trying to PAT so that I can access the external network using VMWare Infrastructure Client Server. Does anyone know what port is VMWare Infrastructure Client listen? Thank you.

  Priscilla

  Do the external network for VMware NAT

  I guess you mean that your server is located in the internal network and Client is on the outside.

  If the customer does not have to "listen" for connections it opens TCP ports - HI 1024-65535 to servers as follows.

  Servers (including GSX) TCP ports: 8222, 8333, 902

  If you have ESX (i) then TCP ports: 80, 443, 902

  T:OMI

  Psalm Points, please

• Best practices for Exchange 2003 with VMWare ESXi 3.5 and iSCSI SAN

  Hello guys,.

  Here's the Q? We have 1 physical Exchange 2003, the HOST of 4 and 1 iSCSI SAN with LUN 3, 1 for data, 1 for VMWare and 1 for SQL, if we're going to virtualize it, I don't know where to put data Exchage and newspapers. I do not think that that is a good practice to put together the data but I do not have another SAN. So, what can I do?

  Thank you.

  We have 813 mailbox.

  I agree with cainics, start an average size and go from there.  I know it's a production mail server and you can not exactly 'play' with the settings because this requires time, but if you do the VM too big, you would have nothing left for other virtual machines.

  I would go 2 vCPU and at least 4 GB of RAM, maybe 8GB.  There must be parameters for the Exchange mailbox 813 and X users # to implement your environments in order to get an idea of the amount of RAM that will be... 4GB seems minimal to me, but 8 GB would probably be better like that.

• How to use 4 x 1 GB for software iSCSI NETWORK interface card.

  Hello. I have a HP P2000 G3, with iSCSI connections 4 x 1 GB. I have 4 free 1 GB NIC on my 5.5 esxi server. IM wondering how I could put things upwards, so it would use iSCSI 4x1Go at the same time, so I would get a 4 Gbps to my SAN connection. Is this possible? I read something about iSCSI multi-trip and Port binding, but is all a bit confusing. It seems to me which is used for failover? I tried to put in place using a multipathing guide and got to the top and his display I 8 paths to my SAN, but it seems that a NETWORK adapter is used when considering my switch activity.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Take a look at this blog post: http://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/howto-configure-a-small-redundant-iscsi-infrastructure-for-vmware/

• VMware infrastructure network for exchanging

  Dear all,

  I'll provide exchange messaging system. Could you pls files Vmware infrastructure network for the exchange e-mail system.

  Thank you

  NHA

  Please find the following links to help you with your design;

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-13273

  www.VMware.com/PDF/exchange_best_practices.pdf

  http://www.MSExchange.org/articles_tutorials/Exchange-Server-2010/high-availability-recovery/what-actually-is-JBOD-how-might-used-Exchange-2010.html

  http://www.thecabal.org/2010/01/from-whence-redundancy-Exchange-2010-storage-essays-part-1/

• question put on the vSphere iSCSI SAN infrastructure network

  Hi all

  We are a small company with a small virtualized environment (3 ESX servers) and are about to buy an AX-5 SAN EMC (model Ethernet not CF) to implement some of the features of high availability of vSphere. My question is related to the networking of the SAN: we switch dual Cisco 2960 G Gigabit and dual Cisco ASA 5510 firewalls in a redundant configuration.

  I understand that the best practice is to implement iSCSI traffic on a separate from all other traffic LAN switch. However, I do not have the knowledge and experience to determine the real difference than a separate switch would really vs the plan to create a separate VLAN on the switches Cisco dedicated to iSCSI traffic only. I would ensure that the iSCSI traffic has been on a VLAN dedicated Physics (not just a logic) with any other VLAN logical (subinterfaces) on the same VLAN). It is difficult for me to understand how a port gigabit on a VLAN isolated on kit Cisco will perform much poorer than on a dedicated Cisco switch somehow. But then again, I don't know what I don't know...

  The thoughts and the input would be appreciated here: I'm (very) hard not to drop another $6 + in another pair of Cisco switches, at least that this decision will significantly compromised performance iSCSI SAN.

  Enjoy your time,

  Rob

  You have 2 SP each with 2 iSCSI, for example:

  SPA: 10.0.101.1 101 VLANS and VLAN 102 10.0.102.1

  SPB: 10.0.101.2 101 VLANS and VLAN 102 10.0.102.2

  On your ESX to create 2 vSwithes, each with a port vmkernel on an iSCSI network and each with a single physical NIC.

  See also:

  http://www.DG.com/microsites/CLARiiON-support/PDF/300-003-807.PDF

  André

• Config network initial ESX with iSCSI SAN

  Hi all

  I want to install 2 ESX 3.5 servers which will be connected to an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN.

  The SAN is on a VIRTUAL, 10.x.x.200 with a 255.255.255.224 LAN Gateway.  This VLAN is not routable, DNS servers, etc.

  What I am trying to understand, it's for the initial setup of ESX, when I set the config network (console), should I register the IP address for the VIRTUAL LAN, example was:

  IP address: 10.x.x.201

  Gateway: 255.255.255.224

  Primary DNS: white

  Secondary DNS: white

  Or, for example B, should I use our 'public' speaking:

  IP Adress:129.x.x.201

  Gateway: 255.255.255.0

  Primary DNS:129.x.x.1

  Secondary DNS: 129.x.x.2

  I know that with the VIC, I can later add vSwitches, etc., but at least for the initial installation, I want the configuration to provide smoother operation. Thanks for any idea that you can provide!

  Chad

  Hello and welcome to the forums.

  What I am trying to understand, it's for the initial setup of ESX, when I set the config network (console), should I register the IP address for the VIRTUAL LAN, example was:

  Use example B (129.x.x.x) for the Service Console (management functions), and after that the system is in place to add an another vSwitch used to connect to the SAN VLAN.

  Good luck!

• Need the steps for implementing a SAN FIBRE network?

  I am familiar with installing and configuring iSCSI SAN, but what is the difference in the implementation of a SAN FIBRE network?

  I know there are FIBER switches and cards HBA Fibre, another thing? I need to layout the steps to configure and connect the hardware.

  This can be useful as well

  For Fibre Channel SAN Configuration Guide

• How can I move virtual machines from a local data store for a new iSCSI SAN?

  Hello guys,.

  Now that we have a new iSCSI SAN market how can I tranfer all the virtual machine to a local data store for a new SAN? Can I stop the VM in the host, and then copy the DataStore files with all the info on the new volume?

  Thank you

  Pesinet

  Alternatively, you can use VMware converter or cold Migration / Storage VMotion if you have the appropriate licenses.

  Duncan

  VMware communities user moderator | VCP | VCDX

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• Yellow! for VMware network driver after upgrade to server 2003

  We have an older Windows Server 2000 guest who was P2V sometime.  It is one of our domain controllers.   In the process of migrating our AD domain until 2008, I have tried to upgrade this server to 2003 our ad can be in 2003 as part of the move towards 2008.   Long story short, in order to upgrade to 2003 server, I had to remove the old Compaq Network Managment of the machine software.  This software was not in Add/Remove Programs, then I went to the manual way to remove hidden drivers, when still it did not work, I have deleted all entries in registry SEO Compaq network management.  I proceeded with the upgrade, but when the system has finished, the LAN connection is missing, and Device Manager has a yellow explanation point to the NIC for VMware Acceleraged AMD PCInet adapter.

  I recloné and resume the upgrade with only remove entries from registry for Compaq Network MGT.  Yet once, after an upgrade, the same problem appeared with the network card.

  I don't know how to successfully remove the Ghost for the Compaq when the software seems to not exist on the computer.  (nothing in Add/Remove Programs, nothing in C:\program files, start anything in the 'Programs' from the menu list.

  Once I get the error on the NIC card I can't fix.  I tried to reinstall the VMWare driver from the VMTools directory, but that still does not work.

  Not sure about Windows 2000, but IIRC the HP drivers can be removed trough the network card properties!

  Be sure to reconfigure the guest operating system to Windows Server 2003 in the properties of the virtual machine after the upgrade. I had probably also remove the NIC and add an E1000 NIC, which is the default value for Windows 2003 VMs.

  André

• Live iSCSI SAN upgrade production network (Dell MD3000i and PowerConnect & ESXi 4)

  Hi all

  For the moment, I have a direct connection to my Dell MD3000i iSCSI SAN in ESXi 4 2 x host with no switch between the two, all of the virtual machine is within the SAN and running on both hosts.

  If I want to put a switch between the two and add one more iSCSI SAN so that the two SAN can be accessed / shared with the 3 ESXi 4 guests total, how should I approach the issue?

  any idea or guideline would be greatly appreciated.

  What I have to plan the time or can I change the old IP on the existing SAN iSCSI manually cable one by one without damage/alter the existing operation of the virtual machine on SAN? or I have to stop the virtual machine and then terminate the connection manually iSCSI session and then restart the host SAN?

  Thank you

  AWT

  Standard installation on the MD3000i is for a port iSCSI on each controller on a subnet and one on each controller to be on another.

  There have been people working successfully on a subnet, reported problems too.   I wish we were longer on our Vsphere upgrade, I'm not at a point but where I test things like Vmotion.