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    02 Configure A VDS (VSphere Distributed Switch) For ISCSI Use

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    This document provides instructions for configuring a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) for iSCSI use and enabling multipathing on four network interface cards (NICs) in a vSphere host. It describes adding the NICs to a new vDS named "iSCSI", creating four port groups for the NICs, configuring the port groups and VMkernel ports for iSCSI, and changing the path selection setting to round robin to use multiple network paths to storage for increased throughput.

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    This document provides instructions for configuring a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) for iSCSI use and enabling multipathing on four network interface cards (NICs) in a vSphere host. It describes adding the NICs to a new vDS named "iSCSI", creating four port groups for the NICs, configuring the port groups and VMkernel ports for iSCSI, and changing the path selection setting to round robin to use multiple network paths to storage for increased throughput.

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    This document provides instructions for configuring a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) for iSCSI use and enabling multipathing on four network interface cards (NICs) in a vSphere host. It describes adding the NICs to a new vDS named "iSCSI", creating four port groups for the NICs, configuring the port groups and VMkernel ports for iSCSI, and changing the path selection setting to round robin to use multiple network paths to storage for increased throughput.

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    02 Configure A VDS (VSphere Distributed Switch) For ISCSI Use

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    This document provides instructions for configuring a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) for iSCSI use and enabling multipathing on four network interface cards (NICs) in a vSphere host. It describes adding the NICs to a new vDS named "iSCSI", creating four port groups for the NICs, configuring the port groups and VMkernel ports for iSCSI, and changing the path selection setting to round robin to use multiple network paths to storage for increased throughput.

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    Configure a vDS (vSphere Distributed Switch) for iSCSI use and how to enable Multipathing to

    use more than one network path to your storage (there by increasing throughput).
    I have 4 NIC on my hosts that are currently not assigned to a vSwitch.
    Click on Inventory \ Networking \ Add a vSphere Distributed Switch. For ease of management I have named my
    switch iSCSI, click Next. Select the NIC’s from each host to add to the switch, click Next. Un-tick the Automatically
    create a default port group as we are going to add these next, click Finish.
    Right click your new switch and choose New Port Group. We are going to create 4 new Port Groups. Name your Port
    Group iSCSI-1, iSCSI-2, iSCSI-3, and iSCSI-4.

    Right click on iSCSI-1 and click Edit Settings. Click the Teaming and Failover setting, we can see that currently all 4
    uplinks are active. For iSCSI use you’re going to need to have only a single active uplink and move the rest of the
    uplinks to Unused Uplinks.
    Go to Hosts and Clusters and click on your host, browse to Configuration and Networking, click on Manage
    Virtual Adapters and Click Add to add VMKernel port. Select the required port group (iSCSI-1) and click Next.

    Here is the Inventory \ Networking\ Configuration tab showing the whole config.


    Go back to the Inventory \ Hosts and Clusters \ Configuration \ Storage Adapters screen. Click the Add button on
    the top right of the screen to add the iSCSI Software Adapter. Click Properties from the lower pane to bring up the
    iSCSI Initiator properties. Click Network Configuration and Click Add to add the new Port Groups.

    We now have 12 paths to the iSCSI Storage server, but we would only be using a single path back to our storage, so we
    need to change our Path Selection setting from MRU (Most Recently Used) to Round Robin. Right click the LUN and
    choose Manage Paths…

    It’s worth noting at this time that by default the Path Selection Policy (PSP) will send down 1000 I/O’s before moving
    on to the next path, in a busy Production environment that’s not much of an issue but if you’re using this in a home lab
    you may want to reduce this down to a single I/O per path.

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