Hello,
we need to connect two VMware ESXi 5.5 hosts to a Buffalo TS III iSCSI storage (a TS-RIXL running firmware version 1.61).
Basically, we need to present to a Veeam Backup & Replication VM running on the VMware cluster a LUN from the TS III iSCSI storage. Once we format the drive from within our Veeam Backup & Replication VM to NTFS we will use it as a secondary storage/repository that will receive backup copies from the primary backup storage using the BackupCopy feature.
As a best practice we would like to segregate iSCSI storage and LAN traffic, so we are planning to create a separate VMkernel port group for IP storage per each ESXi host.
The iSCSI unit should be best connected to the existing environment with a NIC connected into a “Management VLAN” in order to access the TeraStation’s web-based configuration utility and a NIC connected into a dedicated VLAN for IP Storage, however the TS III iSCSI storage does not seem to support VLAN functionality with the current 1.61 software.
Basically, the most important limitation is that the product does not seem to support VLAN functionality, so access to the TeraStation’s web-based configuration utility and iSCSI storage traffic must share the same VLAN, so I was thinking of deploying and configuring a guest VM within the VMware cluster in order to carry out interVLAN routing using the “Router on a Stick” method. By doing this, iSCSI storage will be put on a separate VLAN along with the access to the TeraStation’s web-based configuration utility, but thanks to the Virtual Router VM within VMWare ESXi we should still be able to access to the TeraStation’s web-based configuration utility.
Any help/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and Regards,
Massimiliano