I have a blade server with a few blades that all share one built in SAN. I have diced it up into several LUNs and assigned a LUN to each blade. One of the VM's is going to be an Terminal Server that all the users will use.
Since all the VM's are going to sit on the same SAN I would like them to communicate via the SAN backplane rather than the 1gbps network connection. If I can accomplish this the Termianl Server should be able to communicate with all the other servers faster.
Is this possible to do? Since I'm in the Virtual world the servers probably don't know they all sit on the same SAN (assuming) so they are probably going to communicate via the slower network connection.
Can anyone give me any adivse on perhaps the best way to set this up from a performance perspective. SAN is only a 5 disk RAID 5 array carved up into several LUNs. I have not fully setup the blade so I can reconfigure the entire thing if I need to.
We are using VMware 4.1 Essentials plus
Since all the VM's are going to sit on the same SAN I would like them to communicate via the SAN backplane rather than the 1gbps network connection. If I can accomplish this the Termianl Server should be able to communicate with all the other servers faster.
Is this possible to do? Since I'm in the Virtual world the servers probably don't know they all sit on the same SAN (assuming) so they are probably going to communicate via the slower network connection.
Can anyone give me any adivse on perhaps the best way to set this up from a performance perspective. SAN is only a 5 disk RAID 5 array carved up into several LUNs. I have not fully setup the blade so I can reconfigure the entire thing if I need to.
We are using VMware 4.1 Essentials plus