Hi all,
We have 4 hosts with ESX5.1 installed and use vCentre to manage with Enterprise licences. All hosts started life as 3.5 and we've upgraded ever since. Due to be replaced in 6 months.
One key thing is that the VMKernel port is a dedicated management network using two physical NIC's for redundancy.
Servers all used FC HBA's all multihomed over a mesh FC fabric. We are replacing the FC SAN with an iSCSI only SAN.
My question is what is the best way to implement this? I've created a vSwitch with two VMKernel ports on it. The vSwitch is fed into two seperate NIC's set as Active for failover. This is all fine, and done on all of the hosts.
However I was planning a dedicated iSCSI vLAN with just the SAN's on it. This appears to be a problem, as I cannot set a particular default gateway on the port groups as they are VMKernel ports and will only use the default gateway I have set on the managment network which won't work!
vSwitch0
Management
vmk1:192.168.200.102
vSwitch6
iSCSI2
vmk3: 192.168.30.162
iSCSI
vmk2: 192.168.30.161
Is there only a single routing table shared for all VMKernel ports? If so how should I implement this? I'd rather not have iSCSI on my management network but following the guides online I get this far and cannot route iSCSI interfaces I've setup outside of it's own subnet.... Is this by design?
Any advice much apprecaited!
Thanks - Steve