With different subnets, we can have independent connections from different vmkernel portgroups. Krb5i_200g 192.168.1.101,192.168.3.101 /krb5i_200g true true false AUTH_SYS false Not Supportedīest practice configuration for different subnets

Volume Name Host(s) Share Accessible Mounted Read-Only Security sPE Hardware Acc eleration 192.168.1.y can be reached by vmk1, which is in same subnet as vmk1.This configuration provides independent connections from each vmkernel portgroup and provides better redundancy and bandwidth utilization than paths in the same subnet. With different subnets we can configure multiple vmkernel portgroups to communicate with IP address in the respective subnets. To configure NIC Teaming, attach multiple adapters to the vmkernel portgroup of NFS.Ĭonfigure NIC Teaming with the IP hash load-balancing policy. It is recommended to configure NIC Teaming to better utilize the bandwidth of physical NICs and avoid single point of failure of NICS. The configuration screen using vSphere Web Client is as follows.īest practice configuration in same subnet Multipathing Configuration can be done through command line or through vSphere Web Client. Note: Even if you configure multiple IP adresses in same subnet at ESXi, ESXi will chose only one IP adresss as source to establish connections with server IPs. When the two paths have IP addresses in the same subnet, the ESXi host will make an independent connection to each of the servers IP through its vmkernel portgroup IP which is in same subnet. Although there can be more than two paths, the following sections are based on having two paths. If you want to add another path, the volume needs to be unmounted and remounted. The IP addresses for multiple paths need to be specified during volume mount. The IP addresses of the interfaces exposed by the server for Multipathing can be in the same subnet or in a different subnet. Before configuring Multipathing, check whether the NFS server has support for it.

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