failover ip

[AdStar]

Same question here.
When performing failover all our virtual servers end up restarting.
Hosts running them report that iscsi connection and storage was dropped and regained within a second - enough for all virtual machines running from the SANs crash and reboot.
Is there a way to tune this so the failover is seamless and storage is available 100% of the time during failover/failback?

Thanks.

Hmm I don't get this when I failover, ESXi 4.1 MPIO (4 nics), I can failover/back without any of the VM's rebooting or LUN timeouts etc. It works very well. I might get 1 dropped PATH on ESXi but by the time it poll's and recovers failover is completed, and everything hum's along as it was.

What is your configuration?

[Gr-R]

I was wondering the same thing AdStar.

By design, failover is near instantly. Dropping hosts on every failover is certainly odd.
Some things do come to mind though;
Is everything the same with regards to the targets on each node: frame settings, thread queues, etc. What about frame sizes on the NICs?

And as To-m mentioned, active/active is coming, so another failover option will be available.
But dont give up on node to node failover.... seems something just isnt right in your configuration someplace.