iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) are IP-based storage protocols supported in a vSphere 5.x environment. This recipe covers the design considerations when designing the IP networks that will be used for storage traffic.
IP storage traffic should be separated from other IP traffic. This separation can be provided by either using physically separate hardware (network adapters and physical switches) or separate VLANs for IP storage traffic. The networks associated with IP storage should be directly connected and non-routable.
Multiple network paths to storage should be configured to provide redundancy and load balancing. Single points of failure should be minimized so...