I am looking for the best way to configure our 3 node Hyper-V cluster. The cluster nodes have 2x 1Gbit NICs and 2x 10Gbit nics. The 2 10Gbit nics are conifgured for iSCSI, so cluster validation warns that they are disabled:
These paths will not be used for cluster communication and will be ignored. This is because interfaces on these networks are connected to an
iSCSI target
This made me start looking at the best way to use my 4 network adapters.
My current configuration is:
1Gig1 -Mgmt and Cluster (10.1.2.0/24 subnet)
1Gig2 -Hyper-V switch for guest VMs (no IP defined on host)
10Gig1 -iSCSI (10.2.21.0/24 subnet, no gateway)
10Gig2-iSCSI (10.2.22.0/24 subnet, no gateway)
In Failover cluster manager, I have "Cluster and Client" for the 3 networks that are visible to the host machine (but cluster validation now tells me that the 2 iSCSI adapters can't be used)
A few months ago we had several issues with NIC teaming (errors about MAC addresses and a few BSOD crashes that WinDBG pointed to NIC teaming as the cause), so we moved away from using it. Not sure if the issues have been resolved.
Is there anything "wrong" with the way it is currently set up? Is there a better way to set it up using the 4 network cards and still keep things pretty simple?
James Right Size Solutions