Any reason to have multpile ISCSI NICS on a backup proxy?

[aeccles]

I'm using Veeam 6.1 with ESXi 5 on with an Equallogic PS4100x SAN.

I have direct access setup and running. Question is this... Is there any benefit of having multiple ISCSI connections from the backup proxies to the SAN?

Will a single job using multiple paths?
If multiple jobs are running at the same time will it use multiple paths?
Any other pros/cons?

Thanks,
Aaron

[dellock6]

Hi Aaron, multipathing is managed by the underlying operating system, but is usually advised to disable it since it does not work well with VBR.

Luca.

[Gostev]

Small correction, MPIO does not work well with VDDK (VMware vStorage API) when it retrieves the data from source storage - not with VBR. For example, multipathing to Veeam backup repository will work just fine.

[habibalby]

Advice no to go with the MPIO configuration as it will give you lots of errors. Speaking from live experience when I have implemented the initial configuration with Direct SAN.. Stay away from this type of configuration or else you will endup having Errors or Warnings.


Thanks,