Deploying HA and I have a few questions...

[mkaishar]

I read your technical whitepaper "Providing HA Share Storage for vSphere"

Environment:
2 Starwind servers with 2 10Gb for iSCSI & 2 10Gb for Sync
~40TB per Starwind server
3 ESXi 4.1u2 hosts each with 10Gb

I have a few questions:

1. For the sync, is it better to keep both 10Gb as independent nics with independent IP Addresses or would Teaming be better?
2. For the sync, can I disable "Client For Microsoft Networks" & "File and Print Sharing For Microsoft Networks"?

Thanks,
Mark

[anton (staff)]

1) Keep separate (unteamed) NICs and configure multiple sync channels.
2) You may if you want. It does not matter (unless you really pump some traffic thru them using referenced protocols).