pve4 beta - shared storage requirement?

[stefws]

Under requirements for pave beta is says:

'If shared storage is used a dedicated NIC for the traffic is needed'

We are planning a new test setup with server w/two physical 10Gs NICs bonded and planned for vlans for seperation of networks, could we also vlan tag shared iscsi networks this way?

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,
you can use a single NIC for everything (storage, guest, cluster communication), but this is not recommended!
The point is Stroage networks are under heavy load and can irritate other impotent communication.
If you use VLan AFIK you can get the same effect if you don't use 802.1q and 802.1p.

 

[stefws]

Well assume this depends on your milage and the needed capacity also one might have ability to do per-vlan QoS/bandwidth limitation.