I am setting up a FreeNAS server with 6 NIC, I am planning to serve both CIFS and iSCSI using 5 dedicated interfaces (1 for CIFS and 4 MPIO for iSCSI). These network connection will be connected to 2 separate VLAN / Jumbo Frame ready switches, and the iSCSI receiving host will be either ESX or HyperV hypervisor with 2 GB NIC.
on FreeNAS
1 - Management (192.168.20.101/24) VLAN 20, Switch 1
1 - CIFS (192.168.20.102/24) VLAN 20, Switch 2
4 - iSCSI (192.168.70.101/24) VLAN 70, Switch 1
(192.168.71.101/24) VLAN 71, Switch 2
(192.168.72.101/24) VLAN 72, Switch 1
(192.168.73.101/24) VLAN 73, Switch 2
On HyperVisor
2 - iSCSI (192.168.7#.###/24) VLAN 7? Switch 1
iSCSI (192.168.7#.###/24) VLAN 7? Switch 2
Few questions I do have. As I want to setup MPIO (versus LAGG) with my setup. I presume I add the actual network IP to each of my storage interface as a new Portals? So I would have a portal entries for each of my network interface?
2. I understand Extents and "Associated Targets", but not sure the ratio or best practice to the number of extents per target? As I plan to have numbers of LUN (file extents) being share between 2 ESX hosts, and few numbers more LUN being share between 2 HyperV hosts, do I just have a single target for ESX and a single target for HyperV? But I also wanted to do MPIO, would that mean I need a single target for each extent?
3. And lastly, since I have 4 NIC on the FreeNAS, but only 2 of the hypervisor host(starting with 4, and will be adding more), what is the best course of action to lay out the subnet / LAGG for the network interface? e.g.
using 4 subnet (192.168.70,71,72,73) on the FreeNAS iSCSI, and hypervisor 1 using 192.168.70, 71, while hypervisor 2 using 192.168.72, 73?
or
using 2 subnet (192.168.70 and 71) on the FreeNAS iSCSI, but bind 2 NIC (one on each switch) with LAGG on each subnet, and the hypervisor using 192.168.70 on one NIC, and 71 on the other?
Any feedback would be strongly appreicated
on FreeNAS
1 - Management (192.168.20.101/24) VLAN 20, Switch 1
1 - CIFS (192.168.20.102/24) VLAN 20, Switch 2
4 - iSCSI (192.168.70.101/24) VLAN 70, Switch 1
(192.168.71.101/24) VLAN 71, Switch 2
(192.168.72.101/24) VLAN 72, Switch 1
(192.168.73.101/24) VLAN 73, Switch 2
On HyperVisor
2 - iSCSI (192.168.7#.###/24) VLAN 7? Switch 1
iSCSI (192.168.7#.###/24) VLAN 7? Switch 2
Few questions I do have. As I want to setup MPIO (versus LAGG) with my setup. I presume I add the actual network IP to each of my storage interface as a new Portals? So I would have a portal entries for each of my network interface?
2. I understand Extents and "Associated Targets", but not sure the ratio or best practice to the number of extents per target? As I plan to have numbers of LUN (file extents) being share between 2 ESX hosts, and few numbers more LUN being share between 2 HyperV hosts, do I just have a single target for ESX and a single target for HyperV? But I also wanted to do MPIO, would that mean I need a single target for each extent?
3. And lastly, since I have 4 NIC on the FreeNAS, but only 2 of the hypervisor host(starting with 4, and will be adding more), what is the best course of action to lay out the subnet / LAGG for the network interface? e.g.
using 4 subnet (192.168.70,71,72,73) on the FreeNAS iSCSI, and hypervisor 1 using 192.168.70, 71, while hypervisor 2 using 192.168.72, 73?
or
using 2 subnet (192.168.70 and 71) on the FreeNAS iSCSI, but bind 2 NIC (one on each switch) with LAGG on each subnet, and the hypervisor using 192.168.70 on one NIC, and 71 on the other?
Any feedback would be strongly appreicated
