So this is odd. We are getting ready to make the move to NFS and as part of that I've got a pair of Cisco 3750's with dual 10gig interfaces that I plan on having etherchannel connected to my NAS. With the help of our network guy we've stacked the switches and configured port 1 on both switches to go to controller 1 on the NAS and port 2 on both switches to connect to controller 2 on the NAS. The idea here is that either switch can fail but the 10g VIF will still be accessible to my ESX hosts.
The weird thing is that from the NAS I can ping the ESX server, but from the ESX server I cannot ping anything on the storage network. Is this because it's on a seperate network? Do I need to set up some sort of routing table? It should be local.
My main network is 10.x.x.x/24 (hosts, SC, VMotion), the storage network is 172.1.x.x/16 There are 2 NICs dedicated for each ESX host to NFS, both also a member of an etherchanneled portgroup with one port on each switch in the stack.
Some relavant information.
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks
vSwitch0 64 4 64 1500 vmnic0
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
Service Console 0 1 vmnic0
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks
vSwitch1 64 5 64 1500 vmnic1,vmnic2
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
NFS 0 1 vmnic1,vmnic2
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks
vSwitch2 64 31 64 1500 vmnic6,vmnic4
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
VLN501 501 0 vmnic4,vmnic6
VLN500 500 9 vmnic4,vmnic6
VLN602 602 18 vmnic4,vmnic6
Switch Name Num Ports Used Ports Configured Ports MTU Uplinks
vSwitch3 64 4 64 1500 vmnic7
PortGroup Name VLAN ID Used Ports Uplinks
DMZ 0 1 vmnic7
Interface Port Group IP Address Netmask Broadcast MAC Address MTU TSO MSS Enabled
vmk1 NFS 172.1.2.5 255.255.0.0 172.1.255.255 00:50:56:7c:0a:07 1500 40960 true