My background is Fibre Channel and beginning 2009 I implemented a large iSCSI environment. The “other” storage protocol supported by VMware, NFS, is rather unknown to me. And to be honest I really tried to keep away from it as much as possible, thinking it was not a proper enterprise worthy solution. That changed this [...]

In my first post I had a question about the path data travels when sent to a “standby” virtual connect module. To quote my own question : “What will happen if the VMkernel decides to use that nic to send IO? Is the Flexnic aware of the standby status of it “native” uplink? Will it [...]