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Do I need a trunk?

 
mngz
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‎07-09-2013 12:05 PM

‎07-09-2013 12:05 PM

Do I need a trunk?

A 2810-48 switch has two ports connected to a iSCSI SAN. The two interfaces of this SAN are bonded in balanced-rr mode.

I noticed on the 2810-48 that the switch ports are not trunked.

 

Do I have to trunk these two switch ports?

 

If a trunk is needed can this be done online while there is iSCSI traffic?

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

 

 

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David_Schwartzs
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‎07-09-2013 02:17 PM

‎07-09-2013 02:17 PM

Re: Do I need a trunk?

Best practices for iSCSI are typically not to use trunked ports.

If your iSCSI SAN is setup to best practices as well, then there's at least two iSCSI SAN network switches - in which case, your better bet would be to have the ports on the 2810 each connected to a separate SAN switch, and spanning tree would ensure there was no loop issue.
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