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setup Ontap with two Separate vlans for ISCSI

miller
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Hello,

 

As far as I know NetApp\Vmware best practice with iscsi protocol is setup Ontap with two Separate vlans for ISCSI

Iscsi A

Iscsi B

 

Do you have a document that states that?

 

Thank you.

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AllenJohnson
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It's Best Practice to have seperate Fabrics for Block storage. 
just like with FC traffic, it's not recommended to run iSCSI traffic on a single switch. 
One way to accomplish this, is to physically seperate Fabric A and Fabric B ( FC or iSCSI) on seperate switches. 
Another Best Practice is to use VLANs to seperate iSCSI traffic from other types of data traffic ( NFS / CIFs)

 

 

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SpindleNinja
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https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMLP2495115

 

It is recommended that all SVMs in ISCSI configurations have a minimum of two LIF's per node in separate Ethernet networks for redundancy and MPIO across multiple paths.

 

doesn't necessarily have to be vlans,  just two separate networks (switches) 

TMACMD
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Under VMware, one technique is to do this (using VLANs 133/134 for iSCSI):

1. Create a standard vSwtich (vSwitch 2) with both iSCSI vmnics (lets call them vmnic4 and vmnic5)

2. Create a port-group called iSCSI-A-133 in vSwitch 2 and insert a vmk

3. Create a port-group called iSCSI-B-134 in vSwitch 2 and insert a vmk

4. Configure the iSCSI-A-133 vmk teaming-failover to over-ride and make sure that vmnic4 is active and vmnic5 is unused.

5. Configure the iSCSI-B-133 vmk teaming-failover to over-ride and make sure that vmnic5 is active and vmnic4 is unused.

6. Go to the iSCSI software configuration and enable port-binding for those two vmks.

This allows for two interfaces inside a vswitch which allows vmware to think it has failover and you override that anyway with port-binding.

 

 

miller
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thank you for your reply.

there is no documentaion for using 2 vlans at all?

AllenJohnson
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It's Best Practice to have seperate Fabrics for Block storage. 
just like with FC traffic, it's not recommended to run iSCSI traffic on a single switch. 
One way to accomplish this, is to physically seperate Fabric A and Fabric B ( FC or iSCSI) on seperate switches. 
Another Best Practice is to use VLANs to seperate iSCSI traffic from other types of data traffic ( NFS / CIFs)

 

 

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