Not familiar with LeftHand but dont they have any dedicated management ports? I reserve my iscsi switches for iscsi traffic. I treat managemt of them the same way I treat management of anything else.
If you have other machines than the cluster that need iscsi access then connect them to the same switches. I.e. treat your iscsi network the same way you would any other SAN fabric. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 4 dec 2010, at 14:05, "Paul Hutchings" <[email protected]> wrote: Currently planning the network layout for a new small vSphere cluster that I have to start building next week. Hardware will be HP DL380 Servers, P4000 SAN nodes, 2910al switches. I’ll have 12 NICs available per host the 2910’s are dedicated for iSCSI and anything else I want kept off the main LAN. Where I’m struggling a little is in working out the optimal way to configure the iSCSI so it’s on a dedicated switch, but also accessible from the main LAN. · Option A would seem to be to turn on IP routing on the switches, but this seems far from idea. · Option B would be to have a management VM which would be multi-homed between the VM network and the iSCSI network. · Option C is have the iSCSI VLAN connect to a port on a firewall and only allow management PC’s from the VM network through to the iSCSI LAN. I’m leaning towards a combination of B and C as with this new setup I want to have a management VM available so that myself and my colleague have one place to go to find all the admin tools we’re likely to need for our various systems (in addition to on our PC’s), but it would also be useful to have direct access from our PCs. I’d appreciate your opinions on the ideal solution or combination of solutions. Thanks, Paul ------------------------------ *MIRA Ltd* Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
