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10 Best Practices for Sharing an iSCSI SAN Infrastructure with Dell PS Series and SC Series Storage using VMware vSphere
Hosts | 2015-A-BP-INF
3.2 Topology of a shared iSCSI SAN infrastructure with dedicated hosts
Shared iSCSI SAN with dedicated hosts reference topology
3.3 PS Series specific settings
The use cases defined in this paper consist of SC Series arrays and connected VMware vSphere hosts
sharing only the Ethernet iSCSI SAN infrastructure with existing PS Series storage and its connected hosts
(dedicated), as well as SC Series arrays sharing not only the iSCSI SAN infrastructure, but also the VMware
vSphere hosts (shared). It is assumed that the Ethernet network supporting the iSCSI SAN, as well as the
VMware vSphere hosts accessing PS Series storage, are configured using best practice recommendations as
defined in the documents, Best Practices for Implementing VMware vSphere in a Dell PS Series Storage
Environment,.
The PS Series Virtual Storage Manager (VSM), Multipath Extension Module (MEM), and iSCSI port binding
best practice settings for PS Series storage are applicable when the Ethernet iSCSI SAN network is shared
with SC Series arrays.