MS Poster

Hello:

I am exploring directly accessing an iSCSI LUN from a virtual machine. It
appears to work. Is this by design? My host system has three NICs: one for
management, one for virtual machine access to the production LAN, and one
for the iSCSI network. I have added a second virtual NIC to the VM and associated
it directly with the physical NIC connected to the iSCSI network with its
own IP. The iSCSI initiator in the VM finds the LUN and let's me format it.
A few questions:

- Is this how one is "supposed" to set this up?
- Am I going to see performance benefits over provisioning a VHD that sit
on the iSCSI LUN (the volume needs to be around 1TB)
- The virtual NIC does not appear to support jumbo frames; all of my other
devices on the iSCSI LAN use jumbos. Any way to do this?
- If this does not work (e.g., shows poor performance), can I convert the
iSCSI LUN into a VHD?

Many thanks.