Hi,
I'm looking at setting up a Windows 2012 R2 iSCSI storage server (target), that will act as storage to an Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster.
In each of the Hyper-V hosts, I have 2 dedicated 1Gbps NICs.
In the Storage Server, I have 6 dedicated 1Gbps NICs.
The question is: How do I setup MPIO in this case?
I've looked at setting up 6 connections per host (3 connections from 1 NIC on the host to 3 separate NIC on the Storage, and 3 connections from the other NIC on the host to the other 3 NIC on the storage) and use round robin.
Would this be the most optimal way of doing it?
I also looked at teaming the NICs on the storage server: 2 teams of 3 NICs each. Then connect the Hyper-V host with two connections (from each NIC to individual teams) using MPIO round robin.
This reduces the configuration maintenance and I haven't seen any impact on performance, but of course I'm worried about the team at the Storage Server level.
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Stephane