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October 22nd, 2013 07:00
Adding switch to iSCSI network
Hi,
We have an iSCSI network for our EQL boxes vSphere 5.1 hosts. The network is 192.168.0.0 /24, we are using PC5548 switches and we have three EQL Groups. Everything is setup following best practices from DELL and everything is working kind of ok.
Since we are experiencing bad performance from our virtualized SQL servers and troubleshooting has led to the switches as suspicious culprit I want to try using other switches to find out.
So I'm planning of adding a pair of cisco switches parallel to the PC5548 and connecting one host and one PS Group to those (where the SQL VM's are residing) and see the difference but my question is can I use the same network 192.168.0.0. /24 even if the cisco and dell switches are not physically connected. Will vMotion work?
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October 28th, 2013 11:00
With 10 Arrays you shouldnt use entry level switches. The interlink trunk has to be 80% of eql bandwidh. You may consider to buy Dell Force10 switchs with low latency and large buffers.
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Joerg
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October 23rd, 2013 03:00
Yes, the hosts and switches have as far as I know been properly configured with Jumbo frames, disabling LRO and Delayed ACK, using DELL MEM etc..
I realized I can not islolate since some VM's then would not be able to have access to volumes on the other storage groups. So, I'm wondering what happen if I add the other switch to the iSCSI environment, if I just go ahead and connect the whatever switch I have to the PC5548 and setting those ports to NOT portfast? Should I trunk since I'm using vlan 500 on the PC5548?
As for the switch to use I have a Cisco 3750 and a PC5448, which one do you recommend?
Thanks
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October 28th, 2013 08:00
Hi,
The cisco switches are 3750G , they are not listed in the compatibility matrix so I will go forward with the PC5400 even if they are discontinued they are listed on the compatibility matrix.
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October 28th, 2013 11:00
I'm planning on switching to PC5400 not PC5500. PC5500 is what I'm using now they are not listed in the compatibility matrix. The PC5400 is.
How is the PC5400 compared to Cisco 3750G then?
We have four host with multiple HBAs and 10 arrays divided in three groups