Hello All,
My current setup is I have a Dell R710 Freenas 11.2 with 4 x 1GB copper and 2 x 10GB ports connected to a Core switch doing routing and storage interconnect. I have introduced a Cisco Nexus 48 port 10GB switch as layer 2. I want to make sure I have the best practise configuration when it comes to the Freenas setup to the Nexus switch.
Freenas has 3 pairs of dev drives raid 1 mirror for all of them. Each dev pair represents its own storage to VCenter running iSCSI.
1. Nexus is connected to the core switch with 20GB LAG's with LACP Port Channel group 1 which is working and passing all the necessary VLAN's.
2. On the Freenas side, I created a LAGG0 between the Dell R710 Freenas to the Nexus switch using the 2 10GB ports and that is also working. I assigned a layer 3 IP address to LAGG0 using the 2 10GB ports only and I am using this layer 3 IP to manage Freenas. I also have the existing management 1GB port still connected for WEBUI mgmt as well.
3. On the Nexus side I configured the 2 10GB ports as a trunk port with a Native VLAN 100 and LACP Port Channel group 2 and I can get to the layer 3 IP address on LAGG0 on Freenas
Question:
1. For each of the 3 dev pairs for storage, do I configure a 3 separate Portals used for VCenter?
2. If question #1 is yes, do I create 3 VLAN's and assign them to the parent interface LAGG0 and also assign them the layer 3 IP addresses used for each portal?
3. For question#2, these newly created VLAN's would need to be tagged on the Nexus and Freenas as well and on the uplink LAG between the Nexus and the Core switch. Does tagging work really in Freenas and how do you create the equivalent of native VLAN's in Freenas.
Hope I shared accurate information here to suggest the best way to introduce Nexus as a layer 2 switch with Freenas.
Your thoughts?
My current setup is I have a Dell R710 Freenas 11.2 with 4 x 1GB copper and 2 x 10GB ports connected to a Core switch doing routing and storage interconnect. I have introduced a Cisco Nexus 48 port 10GB switch as layer 2. I want to make sure I have the best practise configuration when it comes to the Freenas setup to the Nexus switch.
Freenas has 3 pairs of dev drives raid 1 mirror for all of them. Each dev pair represents its own storage to VCenter running iSCSI.
1. Nexus is connected to the core switch with 20GB LAG's with LACP Port Channel group 1 which is working and passing all the necessary VLAN's.
2. On the Freenas side, I created a LAGG0 between the Dell R710 Freenas to the Nexus switch using the 2 10GB ports and that is also working. I assigned a layer 3 IP address to LAGG0 using the 2 10GB ports only and I am using this layer 3 IP to manage Freenas. I also have the existing management 1GB port still connected for WEBUI mgmt as well.
3. On the Nexus side I configured the 2 10GB ports as a trunk port with a Native VLAN 100 and LACP Port Channel group 2 and I can get to the layer 3 IP address on LAGG0 on Freenas
Question:
1. For each of the 3 dev pairs for storage, do I configure a 3 separate Portals used for VCenter?
2. If question #1 is yes, do I create 3 VLAN's and assign them to the parent interface LAGG0 and also assign them the layer 3 IP addresses used for each portal?
3. For question#2, these newly created VLAN's would need to be tagged on the Nexus and Freenas as well and on the uplink LAG between the Nexus and the Core switch. Does tagging work really in Freenas and how do you create the equivalent of native VLAN's in Freenas.
Hope I shared accurate information here to suggest the best way to introduce Nexus as a layer 2 switch with Freenas.
Your thoughts?