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June 25th, 2019 10:00

Dell PowerConnect 5548 Switch and MD3200i SAN

Hi all,

My goal is to create an xcp-ng cluster using 1x PowerEdge C6220 with 3x nodes, 2x Powerconnect 5548 (switch A and B) and 1x Dell PowerVault MD3200i SAN.

The PowerEgde C6220 that I have have 6x RJ45 ports and 4x ports is dedicated to iSCSI.
The plan is to have failover by creating multipath channels where I have 2 port from each server connected to switch A and another 2 ports to switch B so if 1 switch die, i'm still online.
I will also bound 2 port in lacp group for the server internet connection. 1 port in switch A and the other in switch B.

At the moment the switch are in stack mode because I cannot dedicate the switch only for iSCSI.

As far as the cabling is concerne here is what I have done so far(I hope its not too complicated to understand).

sw1 = switch 1
sw2 - switch 2
p = port number
vl = vlan number

+-------------------------------+
|	Dell PowerVault MD3200i		|
+-------------------------------+
Module#	Port#	switch Port#
1		MGMT	sw2-p23-iscsi-mgmt-vl1
		0		sw1-p25-iscsi-vl??
		1		sw2-p25-iscsi-vl??
		2		sw1-p26-iscsi-vl??
		3		sw2-p26-iscsi-vl??
2		MGMT	sw1-p23-iscsi-mgmt-vl1
		0		sw1-p29-iscsi-vl??
		1 		sw2-p27-iscsi-vl??
		2 		sw1-p28-iscsi-vl??
		3 		sw2-p28-iscsi-vl??


+---------------------------+
|	Dell PowerEdge C6220	|
+---------------------------+
Node1
	IPMI			sw1-p12-vl1-ipmi1
	mezanine
		Port ID		switch Port ID
			0 		sw2-p30-iscsi-vl??
			1		sw2-p29-iscsi-vl??
			2		sw1-p30-iscsi-vl??
			3		sw2-p40-internet-vl1
	Onboard
		Port ID		switch_Port_ID
		1			sw1-p18-internet-vl1
		2			sw1-p35-iscsi-vl??

Node2
	IPMI			sw1-p11-vl1-ipmi2
	Mezanine NIC
		Port ID		switch Port ID
		0			sw2-p34-iscsi-vl??
		1			sw2-p31-iscsi-vl??
		2 			sw1-p33-iscsi-vl??
		3 			sw2-p37-internet-vl1
	Onboard NIC
		Port ID		switch Port ID
		1 			sw1-p17-internet-vl1
		2 			sw1-p34-iscsi-vl??
		
Node3
	|
	IPMI			sw1-p14-vl1-ipmi4
	Mezanine NIC
		Port ID
		0			sw2-p33-iscsi-vl??
		1			sw2-p32-iscsi-vl??
		2			sw1-p31-iscsi-vl??
		3			sw2-p39-internet-vl1
	Onboard
		1			sw1-p19-internet-vl1
		2			sw1-p32-iscsi-vl??

The question that I have is this:

1. How many vlan do I need to create?
is it 2 or 4?

2. what port do I need to group?
In my head I think I need 2 vlan but I am not sure

3. how to create the routing for the vlan?

I only have access to the web interface via vpn at the moment because I forgot to setup ssh via serial.

I really hope I can get some help.

 

Thank you in advance

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