HP P4000 with Network Connectivity Best Practises with VMware

[Navaneeda Kumar]

I have a 2 No's of  P4000 with 1 GB and 10 GB network interface. I want to use this storage as a iscsi datastore in vsphere4.

My Vsphere host also has 1 GB and 10 GB network interfaces. I want to isolate the iscsi traffic in 10 GB interface between p4000 and vsphere Host, and i want to use 1 GB for only management purpose. So wht is the best practsises network configration to achive this ?

Can i perform the connectivity as below ?

 P4000 1 GB interface and vsphere host 1 GB interface in 1 GB switch

 P4000 10GB interface and Vsphere host 10 GB in 10 GB Switch

Then enable iscsi in vsphere host ....

I believe the cluster has to form using 10GB network ports of P4000 storage nodes , so we can use VIP to assgin the disks..

Does any one has a best practises of using both 1 GB and 10 GB interfaces in P4000 Storage ??

[bryan_hadzik]

All P4000 interfaces need to be on the same network. The 10gig is more than enough bandwidth for iscsi and management traffic.

[Navaneeda Kumar]

In P4000 , how to separate the iscsi traffic with Management traffic. I want to use Management San IQ traffic in 1 GB Nics and Iscsi Traffic in 10 GB Nics. Is it possible ?

I have a customer with curretnly running with 1 GB network and he is not having communication between 1Gig network to 10 Gig network. So now we want to use 10 Gig network only for iscsi traffic and 1 GB only for Management traffic.  How to achieve this ?

[Tedh256]

you cannot

[Davy Priem · Accepted solution]

see topic HP P4500 G2 Networking

[Navaneeda Kumar]

Thank you,

So it is not recomended to split the interface for managemetn and iscsi traffic. Both has to be on the same network.

[Urimuqi]

P4800 can be used as VSA and P4300&P4500 used as physical storage?