ESXi 4.1 Enterprise & Starwind

[mkaishar]

Current Starwind server:
Version 5.2 (I know it's old...planning to upgrade soon)
4x1GigE for SAN - each with it's own IP/subnet (10.0.0.210, 10.0.1.210, 10.0.2.210, 10.0.3.210)
No Teaming enabled, 9K jumbo frames for everything

Current VM ESXi 4.1 Enterprise (3 hosts)
2x1GigE for SAN
Each physical NIC has 2 vmkernels (10.0.0.xx, 10.0.1.xx) & (10.0.2.xx, 10.0.3.xx)

Under VMware's iSCSI Initiator Dynamic Discovery I add each target (10.0.0.210, 10.0.1.210, 10.0.2.210, 10.0.3.210)
Then I have a script in /etc/rc.local/ to fix iscsi mpio 1Gig throughput limit and set the roundrobin policy.

So...

Is this technical doc still valid? http://www.starwindsoftware.com/iscsi-s ... ltipathing
What about this one? http://www.starwindsoftware.com/using-s ... esx-server

Now we are upgrading the storage server to 2x10G and VM servers from 2x1GigE to 4x1GigE

Does Starwind still need to have multiple subnets for MPIO in VMware & Multipathing in Windows?

Thanks,
Mark

[anton (staff)]

1) Please upgrade to V5.6 before applying for support. It's pain to open support cases for the issues fixed years ago...

2) You need to put down existing links and add new ones one-by-one.

3) Yes, multiple subnets are required. It's Windows OS requirement, not the one coming from StarWind itself.