Ping node/failover and redundant switches.

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Use a Ping node with UPS, Firewalls, Routers anything that is in the same subnets is also best and has high up time - see link below for more information. we spent allot of time on these video's that will help w/ some of your questions.

http://www.open-e.com/library/webcasts-and-videos/
2010.02 Open-E DSS V6 AutoFailover with VMware 4.0
2010.09 How to setup iSCSI Failover with Unicast Network connection mode

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Hi guys,

I've run into a bit of an issue, I'm just not sure how to do this.
As I stated my VIP's are
eth0 10.1.5.100
eth1 10.1.6.100
eth2 10.1.7.100
eth3 10.1.8.100

Which are only active on the active/primary node.
My VMWare hosts have all the iscsi traffic on the network 10.1.5.x/ 10.1.6.x/ 10.1.7.x 10.1.8.x I was going to add the IP's that are on my virtual hosts as ping node IP's but then relised that only the primary server will see them. As the secondary node doesn't have an IP on it in the subnet. This is all a catch 22, none of my routers/firewalls are in the same subnet as my iSCSI traffic, do you guys have any ideas on how I can do this?

If I was to add an ip from one of the above subnets to my switches etc, I'm still have the issue of only the node with the VIP's on it will see the ping nodes.

Any ideas?

Cheers
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If I remember you can add more then 1 ping node and this can be on a different subnet so you should be ok just make sure the ping nodes are seen for each network for the Pri and Sec. Ping them first to be sure for each subnet.