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dean_wheatley
Sep 23, 2015Aspirant
GSM7328s VLAN connection with ReadyNAS 4200
Hi,
I am having a bit of trouble trying to configure a ReadyNAS 4200 for iSCSI connections to VMware. I have a GSM7328s, an M5300 and a ReadyNAS 4200. I have configured a VLAN (20) on each Netgear switch and configured routing on the VLAN using 10.10.10.0/24 IP address range and have connected the ReadyNAS using Ethernet 3 (10GB) to the M5300 and Ethernet 4 (10GB) to the GSM7328s. I have configured IP addresses on those NICS in the range 10.10.10.0/24
But nothing is talking to each other, I cannot ping the ReadyNAS from either switch and when I select the VLAN ID 20 on the ReadyNAS the nic changes to DHCP rather than static, or at least I don;t seem to be able to have both ethernet 3 and 4 using static IP addresses, it's all a bit weird.
Basically what I am trying to achieve is a VLAN for iSCSI traffic from our datastore to the vmware hosts through 2 switches (for redundancy) but it just doesn't seem to be working. This is my first attempt at VLAN's so I am somewhat in the dark, though I do uinderstand the principals of VLANs..i think.
Any help or advice to point me in the right direction wiould be appreciated.
Dean
4 Replies
- DaneANETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi dean_wheatley,
Kindly answer the questions I have summarized below:
a. Did you reboot the NAS for the VLAN settings to take effect?
b. What is the current firmware version of the GSM7328s, M5300, and ReadyNAS 4200?
Can you post screenshots of the settings you have configured. I look forward to your response.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
- dean_wheatleyAspirant
Hi DaneA
Yes, I rebooted the NAS so tha the VLAN settings took effect.
Firmware:
ReadyNAS 4.2.27
M5300 10.0.0.31
GSM7328s 10.0.0.44
I am also looking into the prospect of not using VLANS and physically separating the storage network from the rest of the LAN, this will avoid any VLAN overhead (from what I have been told)
Dean
- DaneANETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi dean_wheatley,
It seems that your concern is similar to this forum thread I found online:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1198135-vmware-datastore-over-vlan
I also want to share this link below that I found online that might help:
https://sites.google.com/site/abraindump/readynas-vmware-iscsi-performance
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
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