Hi,
I'm really not experienced with VMWare at all, at this level, so we've brought in some consultants to carry out our implementation.
We've got HP kit, consisting of 2 x 2910 switches, a P2000 with 22 300GB disks, and 2 x DL380 servers with dual CPU, plenty of RAM etc.
The consultants have been a little vague in explaining the logic of the connectivity of the SAN to the servers, via. the switches.
What we've ended up with is puzzling me a little. We have 8 cables from the P2000 SAN (4 on each controller) into our switches (4 in each switch, 2 from each controller). But we've only got 2 x cables going from each server back to the switches? We have 2 spare physcial NIC ports on each server, I can't understand why you'd not want to use them all?
Can someone help me out here, I don't want to loose performance, but more to the point, I don't want to entrust this whole thing to a consultant if they're not doing the best thing for us during implementation?
I'm old school physical servers, but really, the more NIC's, the better potential performance?
Many thanks, Alan
