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 to 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. Visit 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, don't integrate the communication into your network team, use the dedicated RDMA interfaces for SMB Direct communication for this workload.