Right, they can't be bonded. With dual controllers (4 nics) you can configure multipath, with a single controller, you can only configure for failover.
-mb From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MD3200i / VSphere I have several MD3000i. Each management port has its own IP for redundant management. Each iScsi controller has two ports, again, for redundancy. You can change any of these IPs via the Dell software. I do not know if they can be bonded to increase throughput. I suggest contacting Dell support. They have a team that specializes in setup of the MD3000i, and setup should be included in the purchase price. From: Lists - Level5 [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MD3200i / VSphere Anyone managing an MD3000i series device? I only have been using LH and EQL boxes, but am installing an MD3000i (budget reasons), anyway the system comes up well and good, but my question was that each port has its own IP there isn't a 'group' IP like there is on EQL. On the iSCSI side on vpshere is the multi-paths where it sees all the IP's of both mgmt. controllers and 4 nics on each one. The default is 'Fixed' , but I was thinking I would push that to Round-Robin (Vmware) in order to get the most throughput to the 8GB of available connectivity ... I cant seem to find much mention of this , all the of setups and configs I have come across just show the basic setup. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
