I am setting up a couple of Dell servers as ESXi hosts, connected to a Dell SAN for LAB purposes.
I'm new to vmware, but have a fair grip on networking. For now, what I want to accomplish is best possible performence. There's only one switch anyway, so redundancy on port level is just a bonus in this case.
ESXi hosts have 2 NICs that can be used for iSCSI traffic, so I'm thinking 2 Gbps links to the switch. The SAN will be configured with only one controller.
I've looked into how to set up multipathing, but I cant say that i fully understand what is the best and simplest solution in this case.
From my networking experience I immediately thought of LACP for port bundling, but is this a requirement?
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simple topology:
