Hi all
The last day i am setting up a fas2020 (dual controller) for our vsphere 4.1 farm.
The filer will only be used for nfs datastores for the vm's.
The company i setting this up for doenst have switches that supports cross switch trunking / etherchannel. So i came with the following config:
I use a single vif on eatch controller. Both nics are connected to an other switch. (I use favor to select the nic i favor for each controller, on this way i can split traffic accros the switches)
I also use vlans, for the simple reason i use 2 subnets for vmware (1 per vmkernel) and a 3th for management.
Controller 1:
hostname brena01
vif create single vifna2 e0b e0a
vif favor e0a
vlan create vifna1 1
vlan add vifna1 12
ifconfig vifna1-1 192.6.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtusize 1500 partner 192.6.1.51
ifconfig vifna1-12 10.0.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtusize 1500 -wins partner 10.0.2.3
mediatype auto partner vifna2
route add default 192.6.1.254
options dns.enable on
options nis.enable off
savecore
Controller 2:
hostname brena02
vif create single vifna2 e0b e0a
vif favor e0b
vlan create vifna2 1
vlan add vifna2 13
ifconfig vifna2-1 192.6.1.51 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtusize 1500 partner 192.6.1.50
ifconfig vifna2-13 10.0.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtusize 1500 -wins partner 10.0.1.3
mediatype auto partner vifna1
route add default 192.6.1.254
options dns.enable on
options nis.enable off
savecore
Now, i have it all running and it works, but here comes the problem.
When i do a takeover of controller 2:
- I am able to ping both addresses 192.6.1.50 and 192.6.1.51 ==> I conclude that my partner / vlan config is oke
- I am not able to ping 10.0.2.3 ==> so vmware loses is access to the nfs datastore on this controller
I am probaly doing something wrong with the 2 subnets?
The ports of controller 1 and 2 are all tagged in VLAN 1-12-13
Would be very nice if someone could say if its correct what i am doing, or is it totaly wrong.
Many thanks in advance
Reinhart De Bock
Message was edited by: reinhartman