ESXi iSCSI SAN Configuration

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Hi Chaps

I have a server with multiple NICs, 2 of which are dedicated to iSCSI traffic. I also have a SAN with 2 NICs, all interfaces on both on the SAN, server and switches have jumbo frames enabled. The iSCSI traffic is separated on its own VLAN and it works as expected.

However, on my ESXi box, how would I connect my virtual machines to my SAN? I currently have 1 vSwitch configured, which is the production network and each VM has one assigned NIC. -

• Should I allocate 2 NICs to each VM, one for the production network and one for the SAN?
• Do I mount the SAN volume within ESXi and add a secondary disk to the VM?
• Or none of the above?

Any suggestions would be massively appreciated! Hope it makes sense!

Thanks

Martin