<div dir="ltr">In a word, no.<div><br></div><div>Unless you have Enterprise Plus (which is the wallet-emptying version of vSphere), then there's no support for aggregation/bonding, particularly for iSCSI.</div><div><br></div><div>The best thing to do is set up a number virtual port groups with one active physical NIC each (the other pNICs on the vSwitch must be disabled entirely in the port group), assign an IP to each of them (you create them as a vKernel port group, not a Virtual machine port group, and then bind each of them to the software iSCSI adapter. This gives you good multipathing - most storage vendors then support round-robin as the method of load-balancing across the ports.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 April 2015 at 13:11, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kristoffer.sheather@cloudcentral.com.au" target="_blank">kristoffer.sheather@cloudcentral.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><div>I'm not that familiar with vSphere as we don't use it for exactly those reasons (dear as po$ion). But couldn't you configure MLAG on the Arista then use a bonding mode other than LACP on the ESXi hosts?</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> AusNOG [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>James Cunningham<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 19 April 2015 12:48 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Cheapest half decent 10Gbps switch (for iSCSI only)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question, so apologies in advance - but since most people here run high speed storage networks it is probably relevant.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can I have some recommendations for low end, cost effective, 10Gbps switches (for iSCSI use)?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Only need around 8-10 ports per switch, and all the switches I'm looking at from the likes of Cisco and Juniper are around $20k-$30k a switch - seems pretty extreme really. I'm looking at deploying 2 x 10Gbps iSCSI switches for a client for a small VMware project, and am looking for suitable switches.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking for suggestions for a half decent switch to use here - doesn't have to be top of the line with heaps of features, just something very basic, as long as it's 10Gbps and has at least 8 ports.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking at the Netgear XS712T, these are around the $2k mark, which is in the ballpark of what I need. Looked at the Netgear XSM7224 and DELL N4032, but these are around the $5k mark per switch (but granted 24 ports with dual power supplies)</p>
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