Does this mean you can also have multiple IPs per vFiler for iSCSI / NFS load balancing?
Yes, you can have multiple IP addresses per vFiler... In the example below, it's used for traffic segregation and not load balancing as both the "iSCSI" (VLAN-1) and "NFS" (VLAN-10) networks are on the same "multitrunk" VIF.
Also, in your experience are there any drawbacks or things to be aware of when using multistore? Multiple customers will be hosted on the system running multistore, each in an iSCSI SAN environment, using VMware SRM and Snapmirror replicating to a system which does not utilise mulistore.
Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated as I am a little worried that the introduction of multistore may cause some issues, by that time it may be too late!
With regards to advice, here's a couple of gotchas that you'll want to avoid:
- Set the "vfiler limit" as soon as possible, since the default is quite low and modifying this setting requires a reboot of the controller.
- Be careful with using IPspaces as this feature is extremely powerful, so you'll really want to understand it thoroughly before you decide if and how you want to implement it. For the most part I'd stick with the "default-ipspace"
Cheers, Tony