how to set up esxi to do failover in a switchless setup ?

[Pi-L]

Please make sure beacon probing is enabled in ESX:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mic...rnalId=1005577

[nickdd]

Hi,

I was unable to make it work, I started from scratch but still the same issue.
I'm using vsphere 5 (esxi 5) and it only allows to have 1 active nic (the other one must be set to "unused") per vmkernel port.
So I guess the beacon probing/nic teaming failover is not kicking in.

See http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011...i-binding.html

The setup in the video mentioned above is also slightly different in the network setup.

I am however attempting this blog post from Janusz http://blog.open-e.com/is-it-possibl...lable-cluster/
But unfortunately it doesn't show the whole setup and it has probably changed since esxi 5.0.

Any more ideas ?

[nickdd]

Hi finally solved the issue.
I figured out that I didn't need iscsi port binding after all, that's only useful for MPIO and since I'm using a single 10 gbit path I don't need that.
So I could leave the nic's in active-active with beacon probing and everything works !

Thanks for the pointers !