Hi Guys,

I have a Dell Powervault MD3200i SAN that I plan to use for a 2 node Hyper-V cluster. I understand this is an old piece of kit, but this is just for a test lab of mine. I am not going to be using switches for the iSCSI configuration, I would like to use a direct connection from the SAN controllers to my Nodes. Each node has a quad NIC card dedicated for iSCSI, that's 4 ports per host, and my SAN has 2 controllers.

I am struggling with the subnet and which ports to connect to. I am trying to achieve good performance, and I know this comes down to how iSCSI is setup correctly.

 

The Dell Deployment guide for this SAN confuses me because the examples it gives either involves switches, or Direct Connection with 3 hosts.

Could someone kindly tell me what I need to configure my Controllers and Hosts with in terms of IP Subnet, and also which port to connect?

Example.

SAN Controller 0 Port 0 - Node 1, NIC 1

SAN Controller 1 Port 0 - Node 2, NiC 2 etc

The only spare switches I have available for this project are some old HP Procurve-1810, which are gigabit but not brilliant for iSCSI, which is why I think a direct connection would be better for performance.

Best regards

James