We are temporarily going to use a PS series Array by DELL for the SAN in our ESXI environment. It has 2 NICs per controller(there are 2 controllers). We therefore have 4 NICs, which are in redundant pairs. i.e if eth0 fails on controller 1 then this will failover to eth0 on controller 2. They Are 1gb NICs and I like to maximise bandwidth if possible(you can only have 2 active at one time).
The diagram below shows how DELL would configure the SAN network. We would be using MPIO from the ESXI HOST using port binding on two uplinks, but the recommendations for this are active/standby, which means we would only have one active connection at a point in time. How would we achieve the 2 active connections as shown in the diagram below?
cheers Mike