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тАО04-22-2009 05:22 AM
тАО04-22-2009 05:22 AM
Lefthand DSM in Active/Active from a server with dual NICs
Currently with the Lefthand DSM, we have only been able to get active/passive failover from dual NICs in the server to 2 VSAs. The option to enable any type of loadbalancing across the NICs in the server is not allowed while using the Lefthand DSM.
What we found was we had really 2 options:
1. Use the Lefthand DSM and loadbalance across the VSAs but only have failover for the NICs from the server
2. Use just Microsoft MPIO (which while not supported does appear to work) and load balance across the NICs from the server but not across the VSAs.
What we are looking at is what options we have if we hit the max throughput for a single 1G connection.
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тАО04-22-2009 08:06 PM
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Re: Lefthand DSM in Active/Active from a server with dual NICs
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тАО04-23-2009 03:57 AM
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Re: Lefthand DSM in Active/Active from a server with dual NICs
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тАО08-27-2009 06:58 AM
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тАО04-06-2010 08:35 AM
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тАО05-06-2010 11:46 AM
тАО05-06-2010 11:46 AM
Re: Lefthand DSM in Active/Active from a server with dual NICs
My setup is 3 Hyper-V 2008 R2 servers with 2 NICs each in the iSCSI network. I followed the instructions for installing the DSM and connecting with multiple NICs to volumes from the Windows Solution Pack.
I see occassional activity on both the NICs, but whenever I test transfering large amounts of data only 1 NIC is ever used.
I'd love to hear a response from HP on this. The HP MSA2000 utilizes both NICs when using MPIO, as do EqualLogic SANs. This is a pretty major flaw in the DSM module.
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тАО08-26-2010 01:11 PM
тАО08-26-2010 01:11 PM
Re: Lefthand DSM in Active/Active from a server with dual NICs
This has to be a serious problem with the Lefthand DSM doesn't it, that surely would have been addressed quickly. Or is there a simply config change to make it work?
If it is intended (bad/stupid) behaviour then why do the docs practically insist on doing it this way (and use ALB).
I am going back to no DSM to see if I can get it to work properly that way since using the DSM seems to give only fail-over.