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dean_wheatley's avatar
Sep 23, 2015

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

  • DaneA's avatar
    DaneA
    NETGEAR 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 

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