Hi
I am trying to setup a redundant connection to our NFS storage. I came to the conclusion that the best way to enable this is by creating a NFS VMK (on it's one subnet and un-routable VLAN) on a vswitch with 2 nics in active/standby failover.
My question is: Given that the failure detection is link detection, if, by any chance, a misconfiguration on the switch side places the current active nic in blocking state (or in another VLAN for example) without failing the link, would I encounter an APD and eventually a PDL? Am I right in assuming that the standby NIC will not become active because the active NIC hasn't lost connectivity?
I would like to use this configuration because the active/standby links are 10g and I was thinking in adding the vmotion vmk on the same pair but reversing the order so that it uses the standby from the NFS vmk,
If anyone has any insight on this please let me know.
Regards
PS: Would, maybe adding a 3rd NIC (1g NIC) as standby and enable beacon probing, be a solution to my concern?