Administrator Guide
13 Dell FS8600 with VMware vSphere Deployment and Configuration Best practices
4.4 FS8600 Client Network Configuration
The client network in the FS8600 should be configured to accommodate the logical separation of guest OS data and
application/user data into VLANs and subnets. Dell recommends having at least two subnets, each in a different VLAN,
to allocate these two main workloads. Additional subnets may be needed to support the NFS datastore traffic load
sharing methodology chosen for the solution (See NFS Datastore Traffic Load Sharingon Page 14). Since these
subnets are primarily used for traffic load sharing, they can be allocated in the same VLAN as illustrated in Figure 3.
The FS8600 can be configured with multiple network (subnet) access to/from the client network links. The configuration
of each client network requires at least one virtual IP (VIP) and one IP address for each node. Client networks have
optional VLAN tagging configuration. All networks configured in the FS8600 are accessible to/from all client network
ports simultaneously, thus granting high availability and no single point of failure.
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User Shares
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Figure 3 FS8600 Client Network Configuration