Storage network

If you are using Fibre Channel Infrastructure for storage communication, you don't need additional considerations to integrate this communication into your converged network. However, if you are using the iSCSI communication, it's highly recommended that you use another network for storage communication. The iSCSI communication uses MPIO for resiliency instead of network teaming. There is just one upcoming scenario where iSCSI over teamed interfaces is possible, in all the major scenarios teaming iSCSI communication is not supported. Refer to http://bit.ly/1mVYDyq for more details.

It's best practice to separate the iSCSI communication from other traffic on a host level, so use two dedicated network cards on the host. Don't add them to a team, instead use the MPIO feature for resiliency.

If you are using SMB3 communication for your storage, use Switch Embedded Teaming to converge this kind of traffic if your network adapters support RDMA. To give the priority to SMB3 flow over...