Vlan + 2910al-48G + P4300

[Warwick Ferguson]

Hello,

I'm new to VMWare and SAN's etc. Can someone please help me with my configuration.

I have just purchased the following for a new VMWare network:
2 x DL360 G6 with 4 NICs each
2 x HP 2910al-48G
1 x HP P4300 7.2 Starter San

I have placed everything in the rack and connected the network cables. I've had someone come in and set-up the SAN and LUN's, but we have ran into routing VLAN issues. We couldn't combine the SAN nodes into 1 management group until we placed the SAN (eg all 4 NIC's) on one separate switch with the configuration PC.

It's clear that I have a VLAN issue with my set-up but I don't know VLANs etc. I can't ping the VLAN iSCSI from the default VLAN. I don't know which ports I need to tag/untag etc ( I don't understand what the tagging does )on my VLAN configuration.

My end result is I would like to have 4 networks and mentioned in my VLAN's.

Do I need Flow control and Jumbo Frames, I beleive I do from what I have read. on these forums?

No#1 DL360 IP=172.16.1.21 VMWare ESXi
NIC #1 Switch1/Port1
NIC #2 Switch2/Port1
NIC #3 Switch1/Port3
NIC #4 Switch2/Port1

No#2 DL360 IP=172.16.1.22 VMWare ESXi
NIC #1 Switch1/Port3
NIC #2 Switch2/Port3
NIC #3 Switch1/Port4
NIC #4 Switch2/Port4

Switch No#1 IP=172.16.1.16
Switch No#2 IP=172.16.1.17
Switched are connected to each other on port 48 on both switches.

SAN IP=172.16.99.2
Node #1 IP=172.16.99.10 combined
NIC #1 Switch1/Port5
NIC #2 Switch2/Port5

Node #2 IP=172.16.99.20 combined
NIC #1 Switch1/Port6
NIC #2 Switch2/Port6

VLANS
Default IP=172.16.1.0/24 VLAN ID=1 (Corporate Network)
DMZ IP=172.16.100.0/24 VLAN ID=100
iSCSI IP=172.16.99.0/24 VLAN ID=99
VMotion IP=172.16.90.0/24 VLAN ID=90

P.S. This thread has been moved from Switches, Hubs, Modems (Legacy ITRC forum) to ProCurve / ProVision-Based. -HP Forum Moderator