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Re: Is "Router on a Stick” the rigth solution to overcome an iSCSI storage not supporting VLANs ?

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You don't need to "route" iSCSI traffic to use VLAN's. Just create a Virtual Machine Port Group on the same VLAN as iSCSI and you will be good to go!

 

vSwitch 0

VM Network

  • VM1
  • VM2
  • VM3

Management Network

  • vmk0: 192.168.10.10

 

vSwitch 1

VMkernel-iSCSI-01 (VLAN 999)

  • vmk1: 192.168.20.10

VMkernel-iSCSI-02 (VLAN 999)

  • vmk2: 192.168.20.11

VM Network 2 (VLAN 999)

  • VM3

In this example, VM3 is multi-homed on both VM Network and VM Network 2 (be sure to set a gateway only on the production network, not the iSCSI network), and you will be able to use VM3 to manage the SAN.

 

Remember, using VLAN's with iSCSI costs you 4 bytes a frame, so be sure to use Jumbos if you can - and don't forget to do port binding if you use more than one iSCSI VMkernel.


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