Connecting unified storage directly to servers on iscsi questions

[ReMad]

Hi

Vnxe 3200 supports direct connectivity for hosts

But wanted to check in general when connecting server directly on iscsi ports

Do i need to make ports on server nic teamed to act as one port with one ip

Or two different ips ?

Thanks

[sc302 Veteran]

Ok,

How I have always done it was to connect the iscsi devices to switches then to the iscsi enabled nics on the servers.  I have always done redundant paths in case a nic dies or malfunctions.  You don't team the ports at all, you set up the ports to be iscsi and the protocol will use the port needed.  You usually have 2 ports on each card for multipaths designated by a long ipv6 looking address.  You tell the iscsi cloud to use these ports (on the san/server/drive host and on the servers).  You will probably want to enable jumbo frames on the ports and switches if you are going to be transfer large amounts of data/files/virtual disks between the host servers and the drive storage.