On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:55 AM, "Joseph L. Casale" <JCasale at activenetwerx.com > wrote: >> E.g. I do have some fileservers connected to the users lan and to >> some >> ISCSI Storages. Or some Webservers only connected to the LAN. The >> switches are all new cisco models. > > Just as an example, the Microsoft ini recommends against running it > through > bonded interfaces but suggests to use multipathing instead, > something you > might want to consider for the iSCSI case. That's on the initiator side, on the target side MS supports whatever works for the target. For target servers I typically run 2 bonded pairs (802.3ad) for iSCSI traffic to 4-6 initiators, one pair for one path, the other for the other path using layer3/4 hashing. -Ross