VNX5400 and ESXi 6.0 SW-iSCSI and port binding

Hello

I was checking for best practices how to provide centralized storage on a VNX 5400 (block) (2 iSCSI IO modules with 2 ports each) to ESXi hosts (vsphere.6.0).

While I read in the VMware best practices (https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/whitepaper/iscsi_design_deploy-whitepaper.pdf)  multipathing that port binding is recommended to allow for multipathing, I found in the documents related to the VNX (e.g. https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/whitepaper/iscsi_design_deploy-whitepaper.pdf) that port binding is not recommended but using dynamic discovery only.

Probably, VMware's recommendation is only valid in the case of the target begin reachable via a single IP-address, which is not the case on the VNX..?

Please confirm that I still should configure the 2 uplinks on the ESXi hosts (respecively the portgroups) to be one active, the other one unused and vice versa.

Thanks a lot!

I found this discussion but it does not really reflect/answer my questions above..

Re: VMware - iSCSI - VNX - Port Binding Question - Single Subnet vs. Multiple Subnets

Best regards

Uschi