Storage

Some time ago, I configured a pair of Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches for iSCSI storage network and wrote a small blog post about the configuration. This time I had a chance to work with the Dell PowerConnect 5524 switches which were also used for an iSCSI storage network. These switches are cheaper and a bit less powerful than the 6224 series but still good for a small, dedicated iSCSI network. Before you begin with the […]

When configuring a NFS storage network at one of our customers some time ago, I noticed that the ESXi host wasn’t utilizing all NICs assigned to the NIC team for the VMkernel traffic. After some research, I have found this article written by Frank Denneman a while ago and this VMware KB document. According to the blog post and the article mentioned above, this issue may occur if the calculated hash returns the same result […]