Best practices - 4 NIC on the Starwind server. LACP or MPIO?
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:33 am
Hi,
I am trying to get better throughput. On two ESXi 5 servers I am doing MPIO with route-robin policy for 2 NIC. I have 4 physical NICs in the starwind server now. What's best practice for the starwind server connections? The goal is to get maximum throughput.
I found many posts here but no clear recommendations. I searched and read many papers on starwind site and google but haven't found a single good document that explains NIC setup on the Starwind server side. Everybody talks about the iSCSI initiator side but none about the server setup.
1. Do I setup 2 individual NIC with 2 different IPs?
2. Do I setup microsoft MPIO at all?
3. If I setup 2 nic with 2 different IP, do I put both of these IPs in my iSCSI discovery on the ESX side?
Too many confusions. Can someone point me to best practices for the high performance?
Thanks,
Sam
I am trying to get better throughput. On two ESXi 5 servers I am doing MPIO with route-robin policy for 2 NIC. I have 4 physical NICs in the starwind server now. What's best practice for the starwind server connections? The goal is to get maximum throughput.
I found many posts here but no clear recommendations. I searched and read many papers on starwind site and google but haven't found a single good document that explains NIC setup on the Starwind server side. Everybody talks about the iSCSI initiator side but none about the server setup.
1. Do I setup 2 individual NIC with 2 different IPs?
2. Do I setup microsoft MPIO at all?
3. If I setup 2 nic with 2 different IP, do I put both of these IPs in my iSCSI discovery on the ESX side?
Too many confusions. Can someone point me to best practices for the high performance?
Thanks,
Sam