I'm using 1 dvswitch for NFS. I have 2 physical NICS at 1GB dedicated to it. There are less than 20 VMs and light storage traffic. I'm using Enterprise Plus licensing on 5.1. I cannot use LACP on the physical network.
I may need to connect to 3 NFS datastores. I have a few questions:
How many NFS vmkernel ports should I create? Should I create one for each datastore?
Should I configure failover as active / active? I want to connect each of my two physical NICs to two different physical switches.
Which load balancing policy should I use (port-ID, load-based teaming, ip-hash?)
Do I need more than one IP address on the storage array in order to provide redundancy - with each IP on a different subnet?
Thanks