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2910al - x2 cabling to two P4300G2 Nodes and two ESXi5.1 Gen8 Servers

 
Howiedoit
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2910al - x2 cabling to two P4300G2 Nodes and two ESXi5.1 Gen8 Servers

Hi all

 

I could use some of your experience with cabling this up.

 

I have two 2910al switches, each has 2- J9008A 10Gbe Modules, and labeled A1-A2 and B1-B2

 

The P4300G2 Nodes also have 2-10Gbe ports, and best practice say to bond and apply ALB

And...DL380p Gen 8 have 2-10Gbe Nics as well

 

Redundacy for switch failure

 

So my thought was:

 

Sw01

 

Port A1- to Array 01 (eth2 + eth3 = bond1)

Port A2- to Array 02 (eth2 + eth3 = bond1)

 

Port B1- to ESX Host 01 eth0

Port B2- to ESX Host 02 eth0

 

 

Sw01

 

Port A1- to Array 01 (eth2 & eth3 = bond1)

Port A2- to Array 02 (eth2 & eth3 = bond1)

 

Port B1- to ESX Host 01 eth1

Port B2- to ESX Host 02 eth1

 

These ports will belong to an iSCSI Vlan, and I'll have to trunk that from sw to sw to allow everything to talk to everything.

 

But I am not sure if my thinking is correct. 

 

I would sure appreciate some thoughts on this.

 

Tks Much