Hi all,

I need to exposs an iscsi disk to be used as a main disk in a vm. Because I am pretty new in this solution I would like to ask some tips and good practices to avoid making rookie mistakes that can really hit the performance or availability.

What are the common things I should take into account before deploying everything?

Thanks in advance

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Unless you are forced to use the same network interface, always use dedicated NIC, vLAN when possible.

Like others mentioned, if the VM is on a hypervisor where you can use that to present the disk, you should try that.

Examples would be NAS box with two interfaces, use second one for iscsi. Connect that to switch with different vlan. Connect something like proxmox second nic to iscsi vlan. Add remote disk in proxmox from iscsi nas. Add disk to VM.

This idea spans all different tech.

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Thx, I will keep in mind, but I have consumer grade hw and I am afraid that vlan in my switch is not possible.

I any case thanks for the bunch of tips

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