How to migrate from 1Gb to 10Gb network?

[oxyi]

On my Starwind 2-nodes, I have one pci-e slot left, which is occupied by Intel 4 ports gb nic.
I am thinking about replacing it and put in a dual-port 10Gb nic. How do I go about migrating it to the 10Gb network ?

This is what I have in mind.

Shutdown the vm host.
Replace nic card on both starwind host
One 10Gb port from each node goes to the switch
One 10Gb port from each node interconnect for sync, or should I put it into the switch as well ?

Since I used to have 2 IPs from each starwind nodes that's doing iSCSI, I will keep one of the IP and assign it to the new 10Gb port, so the system won't be confused and messed up the CSV ?

Is this the right way to do it, or did I miss anything?

Thanks.

[Anatoly (staff)]

Quick question - are you running Native SAN or iSCSI SAN software? I`m asking because if you are on the NS you should keep in mind that MS requires at least one dedicated NIC Windows based cluster.

As about all the rest - the plan looks good to me.