Hello,
Because of cost savings, we are integrating
1x Dell Equallogic ps6100x (2 controllers with each 4 ports)
3x dell poweredge r720 (each have 2 ports dedicated for SAN storage trafic)
vSphere 5.5 (shared storage on the SAN)
Without the use of SAN switches. Each host has dual direct connection (1 to each SAN controller) with iscsi software initiator.
We have done this before with Dell MD3200i, which has also 2 controllers and 8 ports, so we are not expecting problems.
But now that I read more about the Equallogic, I am starting to get uncertain whether this setup will work?
I know this is not recommended but in this stage my only concern is that it will work (even with less performance).
Can you please give me some advise on this?
Best Regards,
Joris
P.S. If this is surely NOT possible, what would be the best/low cost way of making this possible?