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confirming best practice for iSCSI setup

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Hi,

I am about to upgrade from ESXi4.1 to ESXi5.1 and have been advised to format and reinstall my servers to avoid issues.

I was reading a best practices doc (from Dell) and the way they are showing the iSCSI ports is different to the way they recomended when i initialy installed 4.1.  So, i was wondering if someone could just confirm which way i should go.

 

The old method was one vSwitch with 4 kernal ports (each in a seperate subnet) sharing 4 Nics

iscsi-old.JPG

 

The new method is 4 seperate vSwitches with a kernal port in each (same subnet config) and a Nic per switch

iscsi-new.JPG

 

Also, i have 3 servers and i was planning to upgrade one at a time (moving the VMs to the other two servers during the process), if i change the configuration of my iSCSI ports to the new method do you anticipate any issues with the old and new servers working together till i finish all 3 upgrades?

 

Thanks for any advice

Ian


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