vFiler - Multiple Networks - same VLAN

JAMES_LYNES — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:36:51 GMT

I was wondering if I can have some advice about our exisiting vFiler configurations.

We have the following IFGRP

ifgrp create lacp IFGRP0 -b ip e0a e0b e0c e0d

This is then set to trunk our management and iSCSI connections

vlan create IFGRP0 123 456

We then have vFiler's each with 2 ipaddresses from a single VLAN. For exmaple, vf_TEST has 192.168.0.1 & 192.168.0.2. When this is mapped to VMware, it can see 2 paths to the LUN.

My question is, what benefit is there for having to paths comming from the same network aggreagate? A former colleague suggested this was the correct setup, however I cant see the benefit.

Re: vFiler - Multiple Networks - same VLAN

raj_shrivastava11 — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 11:26:28 GMT

Hi,

Actually i dont see a benifit of using 2 IPs from same vlan.

to take a benifit and be more redundant u should use 2 vLan's and 1 IP from each vlan.

This way u can differentiate the traffic by mounting the datastores using different IPs from these 2 different vlans.

Raj

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