Vmware iscsi Static Discovery showing all ips not just virtual

[To-M]

In the VMware iSCSI initiator try with only using the Static, so remove the dynamic discovery and static then apply and close then open again and enter the Static IP of the Virtual IP Address.

[ccrichard]

Upon further review, it looks like this is by design and probably is not hurting anything. I think the only time this caused a problem is when I started the iscsi service on both of my open-e nodes.

[Gr-R]

In failover configuration, only one node is active at a time, so therefore the initiators should only connect to one node at a time, using the Virtual IP.

[ccrichard]

I see now that I accidentally setup multi-pathing, which is good. I don't think there are any problems.

[Gr-R]

MPIO to one node is a good thing.
Initiators connecting to both the active node, AND the inactive node, is NOT a good thing. This will result in data differences, breaking consistancy for failover.

[ccrichard]

I was worried about that, but each vhost has a different Active I/O path. One has the active I/O on the node's physical ip and the other host is to the virtual ip.

[Gr-R]

I was worried about that, but each vhost has a different Active I/O path. One has the active I/O on the node's physical ip and the other host is to the virtual ip.

This is OK.

In future we will have ability to designate which IP is broadcasting the target, so MPIO can be controlled easier.