iSCSI Storage and Routing

Question

Hi VSA Community, Is this possible to have iSCSI initiator and target in different subnets? I know routing is not recommended for iSCSI storage due to overhead of TCP Checksums and what not. I have a Dell UnityVSA Community Edition appliance in one of the IP in subnet i.e 10.10.10.0 while target vcenter server is in different subnet. Every time I proceed to add vcenter server , it says Network Error 409 .  My assumptions is that Dell UnityVSA Community Edition should be in same broadcast domain as target ESXi hosts etc. which i have been dealing with ages. however, this time round, i tried to have ESXI hosts in different subnets than Dell UnityVSA Community Edition. Via command prompt on UnityVSA , PING to IPs in different subnet is filtered while PING to internet hostname works.

DELL-Sam L · Answer

Hello Aleem Syed, They will need to be in the same subnet.

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