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March 23rd, 2015 10:00

How do you setup MPIO in a VM

hopefully this is an Equallogic query as its implies Del MEM is setup correctly which i have done

My Question is that MPIO in a VM needs2 dedicated ISCSI NICS on the SAN subnet not 1

I have 2x 10GB SFP cards in each of my esxi hosts (4 sfp ports in total)

Now this isnt documented anyway

But i use Veeam and im setting up a veeam backup Proxy. 1 x NIC to Main production LAN on seperate switch, and 2 x Nics for dedicated ISCSI San Subnet on another switch

However can someone tell me how correctly to setup the vSwitch2 for the SAN subnet .

Do i just create a new Virtual machines Port group and make one Adpater as the primary and the second adapter unused, then the reversed for the 2nd Virtual machine Port group.

Then on my Veeam Backup Proxy VM, i add the 2 x Virtual machine Port groups and in ISCSI iniator add the 2 IP addresses.

Does this make sense?, it then means im actually utilising 2 x Vnics for upto 10Gb throughput

My Equallogic Volumes already have the IP addresses assigned that i will be using in the Vnics