Hi Julien,
The DELL engineer set up the switch for us initially and we haven't altered the storage heartbeat settings since. Also according to this document from DELL - http://en.community.dell.com/dell-groups/dtcmedia/m/mediagallery/19997606/download.aspx storage heartbeat should use VMkernel.
Regarding the paths, an EQL PS4100 array only had one active controller at any time which means only 2 paths are available, unless I'm missing something there.
We have 1:1 port bindings for vmk2/3 for the iSCSI VMkernel ports.
We have 2 DELL Powerconnect 6224 physical switches that are stacked using a stacking cable and act as one switch when stacked this way. The switches were also set up by a DELL engineer. Here is a summary of the settings that he gave us. Looks like portfast is enabled:
Installation Checklist
• Verified product cabling
• Firmware Update (2 switches)
• Configured Stack between switches
• Created user: admin
• Enabled flow control
• Enabled Jumbo Frames
• Created VLAN for iSCSI
• Disabled unicast storm control
• Spanning-tree portfast on edge ports
Switch
Model: 2x Dell PowerConnect 6224
iSCSI_SW
Managenment IP address: 192.168.42.48
Firmware update (3.3.1.10 -> 3.3.4.1)
User: admin – created
iSCSI VLAN: 100 (ports: 1/g1-1/g20 and 2/g1-2/g20)
• Jumbo Frames: 9216
• Flow Control: Enabled
• Spanning Tree: Portfast
• Unicast Storm Control: Disabled
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