PeterMatthews
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Load Balancing SAN with Two Switches
Hi
I have Huawei Symantec OceanSpace S2600 ISCSI SAN with Dual Controller and each controller has upto 4x 1Gigabits connection.
My current layout is: I have two Vmware ESXI Hosts and they connect to this shared SAN via iscsi interface, from each controller there are 2 x1 Gig output going to a Gigabit Switch and it’s been shared with ESXI Hosts.
I believe I have a bottleneck on bandwidth as my san is being heavily used for sql,exchange and virtual servers running from it. Is it possible to introduce additional switch and load the balances between the two switches?
I want to bring the 2nd switch online and connect to the same controllers using the remaining output from each controllers.
I’m confused on how to bring the second Gigabit switch online and seen by 1st switch and both Esxi servers.
Please send me step by step instruction?
Thanks
I have Huawei Symantec OceanSpace S2600 ISCSI SAN with Dual Controller and each controller has upto 4x 1Gigabits connection.
My current layout is: I have two Vmware ESXI Hosts and they connect to this shared SAN via iscsi interface, from each controller there are 2 x1 Gig output going to a Gigabit Switch and it’s been shared with ESXI Hosts.
I believe I have a bottleneck on bandwidth as my san is being heavily used for sql,exchange and virtual servers running from it. Is it possible to introduce additional switch and load the balances between the two switches?
I want to bring the 2nd switch online and connect to the same controllers using the remaining output from each controllers.
I’m confused on how to bring the second Gigabit switch online and seen by 1st switch and both Esxi servers.
Please send me step by step instruction?
Thanks
With 4 iSCSI ports per controller you don't really need switches at all. More info needed on your current topology - how many NICs do you have available in the ESXi hosts that you can dedicate to iSCSI?
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both ESXi servers have 2x 1Gigabit connection to the shared switch with iSCSI SAN.
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What a`waste of money since you don't need switches at all.