Hello,   Re: Bonding/trunking isn't support with the MS iSCSI initiator.  That's in the MS iSCSi guide.    RE: iSCSI hba.   Is that a Broadcom in iSCSI offload mode, or Qlogic iSCSI HBA?    So once you configure the other port on the BUE to be on that same SAN subnet, you can leverage MPIO.    You should have already installed the EQL HIT kit on the BUE server, is that correct?     If so, then run the Remote Setup Wizard in the Equallogic Program folder.   There's an option "configure mpio".   Set that to only use the iSCSI subnet, and you'll see a checkbox to enabled MPIO on snapshots.  Which is on by default.  Regards, 
we have a 4TB file server 2008, the OS is a physical server with hba to the san volume where the files are located on.our backup exec server so far has a dual iscis hba, with only using one port to the san network.in backup exec i have created 8 jobs that run at the same time and creates 8 snapshots on the san to backup the file server.on the san side when the snapshots are created i can see that the snapshots are assigned to different ethernet ports, eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, etc.and start streaming the data to our backup exec server's iscsi hba, but since it's only using 1 connection its bottlenecked through 1gbps. if i install mpio on the backup exec server and configure both ports and the mpio settings on the hba, when the san creates the snapshots, will the it split the backups between both 1gb connections on the iscis hba on the backup exec server? do i have to do any other configuration on the san or the layer2 switch (48 1gbps connections) that we use for our san network?i read somewhere that you would have to do something on the switch if you were doing "link aggregation" or "bonding" but that mpio is completely different and i wouldn't have to do anything to it. any feedback would be appreciated.
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