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Can someone verify this setup is correct, and make suggestions on improvements?

 

Hardware:

2x HP DL380p Gen8 Servers

1 CPU each, 10 Cores, 2.2 GHz

32 GB Ram each

8x Gbps NICs

 

2x HP Procurve 2920 24-port Gigabit Switches, non-stacking, setup identical

Switches are trunked together, VLANs can pass through the trunk

Ports 13-20 are set to VLAN 10 untagged, and have jumbo frames enabled for Storage Network

 

HP MSA 2040 SAN

4x SAS 450GB 15k rpm RAID-5 volume "production"

4x SAS 3TB 7200 rpm RAID-5 volume "storage"

iSCSI interfaces:

Controller1:

192.168.130.10

192.168.131.10

192.168.132.10

192.168.133.10

Controller2:

192.168.130.11

192.168.131.11

192.168.132.11

192.168.133.11

 

Software:

ESXi 5.5 Essentials Plus

Cluster with 2 Hosts, HA is enabled

 

Host1 Networking:

vSwitch0:  VM Network & Management Network

NICs 0,4  (Active, Active) load balancing port ID - one cable going to each HP Procurve 2920 Switch

 

vSwitch1:  iSCSI VMkernel Ports

NICs 1,2,5,6 - each iSCSI is Port Binding to a specific NIC, 9000 MTU, two cables going to each HP Procurve 2920 Switch

192.168.130.20

192.168.131.20

192.168.132.20

192.168.133.20

 

Host2 Networking:

vSwitch0:  VM Network & Management Network

NICs 0,4  (Active, Active) load balancing port ID - one cable going to each HP Procurve 2920 Switch

 

vSwitch1:  iSCSI VMkernel Ports

NICs 1,2,5,6 - each iSCSI is Port Binding to a specific NIC, 9000 MTU, two cables going to each HP Procurve 2920 Switch

192.168.130.21

192.168.131.21

192.168.132.21

192.168.133.21

 

Each datastore is set to Round Robin path selection.


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