Strange NFS ESXi all-in-one issue - Help!

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scotty do

Limp Gawd
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Hello,

I have the following all-in-one setup:

Supermicro X9SCL
Xeon E3 1230
16GB ram
Perc 6

2 Arrays
4 x 1TB WD Black
3 x 2TB WD Green

Open Media Vault VM with the Perc6 passed through directly.

2 networks:

192.168.160.x - vSwitch0 - General network - 1 Intel NIC
-Contains all my VM's
10.11.12.x - vSwitch1 - Storage Network - 1 Intel NIC
-Has VMkernel port 10.11.12.100 assigned


I decided that since my VM's ran off of the OMV VM, I didnt need a physical NIC assigned, so I removed the physical adapter from vSwitch1 and left it unassigned. I noticed that all this time the 10.10.10.x connection in OMV was assigned to vSwitch0, and not vSwitch1 like it should have. I switched it all so that it now looks like this:

192.168.160.x - vSwitch0 - General network - 1 Intel NIC
-Contains all my VM's
10.11.12.x - vSwitch1 - Storage Network - 1 Intel NIC
-Has VMkernel port 10.11.12.100 assigned
-Contains 1 network adapter from OMV, 10.11.12.101

Now disk access is extremely slow and delayed.

Everything works fine if I add the physical NIC back to vSwitch1 and move the OMV connection back to vSwitch0.

Any thoughts? I am killing my brain over this.
 
You can have two different network which is fine. Your storage should be assigned to the managment switch. Which ever it is. I did notice your running Greens which are notorious for being shiet with Raid. I suspect the raid controller is trying to constantly rebuild the array.
 
This is where I get confused...

Can I not have a management VMkernel, for connecting to ESX on my 192 network?

Actually the greens are working great. No issues. All NFS shares are on the blacks....
 
By "Now disk access is extremely slow and delayed." you mean your NFS datastore on host, or NFS shares in VMs?

Do you have NFS datastores in ESXi mounted as Device/Server = 10.11.12.101?

Does your OMV VM have 2 vNICs? IPs?
 
VMKernel stuff is where you storage network should be access from. Not from your data network. Your trying to route Storage traffic.
 
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