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HELP!!! Trying to establish a MGMT port on one of my 1 Gb NIC ports and establish iSCSI network on
Hi, I am trying to create / establish one of my four 1 Gb NIC ports as a MGMT port on my MGMT VLAN to access the ReadyNAS admin console for management purposes then utilize my two 10 Gb NIC ports on m...
The ReadyNAS should be able to accommodate to your network configuration.
It sounds like the requirements are to seperate the MGTM and iSCSI traffic. There are two generial methods to do so as you mentioned, 1) VLAN configuration 2) Physical connections. In the two different methods to keep the connection/traffic seperated you would be looking at two different subnets.
Based on the performance issues that you have highlighted do not sound like it is specific to the size of the pipe. Adding an additional 1GE to make a 2xGE bond may not be the best approach if you are just needing MGMT. It will help with multiple connections in some performance cases, and improve reliablity.
We may need to have a better understanding on how you are attempting to connect to the unit (IP address, DNS, etc...)? Is the performance impact only the admin interface, or is the iSCSI performance imacted as well? Depending on these items, we may need to know the two different interfaces' subnets to make sure that the broadcast/chatter from the other network is not impacting performance.
Hi Marc_V,
Can I at least bond multiple 1 Gb ports together to double my speed on this ReadyNAS running OS 6.6.0?
The ReadyNAS should be able to accommodate to your network configuration.
It sounds like the requirements are to seperate the MGTM and iSCSI traffic. There are two generial methods to do so as you mentioned, 1) VLAN configuration 2) Physical connections. In the two different methods to keep the connection/traffic seperated you would be looking at two different subnets.
Based on the performance issues that you have highlighted do not sound like it is specific to the size of the pipe. Adding an additional 1GE to make a 2xGE bond may not be the best approach if you are just needing MGMT. It will help with multiple connections in some performance cases, and improve reliablity.
We may need to have a better understanding on how you are attempting to connect to the unit (IP address, DNS, etc...)? Is the performance impact only the admin interface, or is the iSCSI performance imacted as well? Depending on these items, we may need to know the two different interfaces' subnets to make sure that the broadcast/chatter from the other network is not impacting performance.
- Hi, Thank you for your response. Here is how I envision it should work: NIC 1 (1Gbps) port #1 = (MGMT VLAN) connected to a Cisco managed switch with the switchport properly configured for MGMT VLAN. NIC 2 (10Gbps) ports #1 & #2 = (iSCSI VLAN) - connected to a couple of Aruba 10Gb managed switches (each cable going to each switch for redundancy/failover) with those switchports properly configured for iSCSI VLAN. (NOTE: These Aruba switches are not connected to the rest of my network to keep the iSCSI traffic secluded and to reduce changes of that iSCSI traffic from flooding the rest of my network. Also, I have physical servers with 10Gb NIC's connected to these Aruba switches to support VMware (i.e. vMotion, etc.)) Hopefully that clears things up. If not, let me know and I will elaborate. Thanks in advance.
Also, forgot to add the issue is when I physically connect an Ethernet cable to the MGMT port/side my current 10Gb connection seems to stop working as I cannot reach it via the management / dashboard URL, nor can I detect it via RAIDar application.
So, I unplug that ethernet cable and everything works again.
However, I need to establish my new MGMT connection before I attempt to move my current 10 Gb (DAC cable) to the Aruba switch for iSCSI VLAN traffic.
When you are connecting to the NAS, are you on the same network (subnet)? It almost sounds like a routing configuration on the ReadyNAS that might be having the issue.
Maybe there is some behavior that I am able to see in the logs when both networks are connected if you are able to send them to us. Check the signature on how to get the logs.
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