VMware ESXi problem with NIC teaming and CARP with virtual firewall/router

Very tricky one to track down why a failover firewall configuration would never promote it's CARP IP's to MASTER status.

Turns out you must only have a single NIC on a vSwitch with a guest VM being used as a MASTER for CARP, otherwise will always show as BACKUP.

Can't even have a NIC in the standby list, 2nd NIC has to be completely removed.

There may well be a setting in the advanced options somewhere that might get this to work, if anyone has done this please let us know!

Setting up a High Availability NAS/SAN using Openfiler

Setting up a High Availability NAS/SAN using Openfiler

Run through on configuring DRDB to run a high availabilty cluster using Openfiler

http://www.the-mesh.org/tiki-index.php?page=OpenFilerHaSetup

Getting higher iSCSI throughput on VMware

As we are using iSCSI SANS at our datacentres, this is a very interesting article on getting higher iSCSI throughput under VMWare.

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/01/a-multivendor-post-to-help-our-mutual-iscsi-customers-using-vmware.html