Good day everyone!
We are deploying vSphere 5 for our view environment, and are running into issues. We used to use fast etherchannel for active/active load balancing, but now are switching to vDS using Load Based Teaming. On the Netapp side, in order to effectively use multiple NICS, we have been told by Netapp to use multiple vifs. Here is the layout:
Host: esxi1
Distributed virtual switch with 2 nics configured with 1 vmkport (10.15.6.xx)
Load Based Teaming enabled
Netapp Filer: Storage1
two interfaces enabled: 10.15.6.yy and 10.15.6.zz
two datastores, one exported per interface, datastoreY and datastoreZ
NFS datastores are exported to everyone, and all systems are on the same network segment
When we try to mount datastoreY via 10.15.6.yy on esxi1, the mount fails.
When we try to mount datastoreZ via 10.15.6.zz on esxi1, the mount succeeds.
vmkping from esxi1 to each of the storage interfaces was attempted, 10.15.6.yy fails, 10.15.6.zz succeeds.
If I remove the second nic from esxi1's dvSwitch and repeat the vmkping, 10.15.6.zz fails, and 10.15.6.yy succeeds.
Any help would be appreciated. Cheers!