We have a Failover cluster of 3 nodes each node having 2 x 1Gbps NICs which are teamed and used for management and VM traffic on the front (the team is also a trunk carrying traffic for multiple vlans). Team is a switch dependant LACP setup and works fine.
The backend storage is storage space direct and the NICs were not setup by us. I am struggling to understand how they have been setup and how they are meant to work. The setup is -
2 x 10Gbps NICs per node but not teamed as far as I can tell
There are 2 storage vlans and each NIC is a trunk allowing both vlans.
Each vlan is associated with a different IP subnet and NIC1 has an IP from one of the subnets with NIC2 having an IP from the other subnet.
So basically -
NIC1 - allows vlans 10 and 11 with an IP of 192.168.3.1/27 from vlan 10
NIC2 - allows vlans 10 and 11 with an IP of 192.168.4.1/27 from vlan 11
Does this sound right to anybody because coming from a network background if it is trunk I would expect a vswitch somewhere ie. as in the front end. And I just don't understand how this is meant to work as we have been told both storage NICs are active on each node.
Any insights would be very much appreciated.