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.
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)
Lol, interstingly enough the Spiceworks topic was one I started yesterday and is where I got my info re VLAN overhead from. Having said thatm there must be hundreds, if not thousands, of systems setup to use VLAN for this purpose so it's hard to know what's right or wrong.
The google sites post looks really good, so will have a run through that, it may giv me a better understanding.
