EquaLogic Volume Provisioning

Hi Don,

If I create six 800 GB volumes and thin provision them, do i set the 3 sliders at 100% or do i set to alert on, say 90% usage ?

I then need to use UNMAP every so often,,?

As for the nics, we don'r have two switches to use, so the most i could do is two nics in case of a nic or port failure.  If I use one nic, worst case is i lose connection to the SAN until i reconnected to a new nic or port. 

Stan

Thanks again..

Do i set the 3 sliders to 100% ?

If the vSwitch has two iSCIS port groups (two iSCSI connections) on two separate nics and I lose one nic on an iSCSI connection, won't the outer iSCSI take over?

Based on your reply and documents you provided, I see the best configuration may be (if I understand):

EqualLogic controller 1 eth0 to Dell Switch 1 (to port 4) vlan 30
EqualLogic controller 1 eth1 to Dell Switch 2 (to port 4) vlan 30
EqualLogic controller 2 eth0 to Dell Switch 1 (to port 5) vlan 30
EqualLogic controller 2 eth1 to Dell Switch 2 (to port 5) vlan 30
Port 3 Trunk on both switches

Trunk port  VLAN 30 (includes ports 2,3,4,5,6)

ESXi vSwitch 2 nics
  iSCIS Port Group nic 1 to Dell Switch 1 port 3
  iSCIS Port Group nic 2 to Dell Switch 2 port 3

Stan

 

I followed the info in the doc below and have two port groups. Currently to one switch until we get another. We need to start some testing and I created one 800 gb volume.

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-groups/dtcmedia/m/mediagallery/19997606/download

Also, do i also need to deploy MEM per 

http://en.community.dell.com/dell-groups/dtcmedia/m/mediagallery/19991633/download

thanks

Stan

Thanks Again for the help Don,,

I will post any other questions / issue in a new posting moving forward,,,

Stan