{"id":4027,"date":"2026-02-04T13:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:11:02","slug":"xcp-ng-test-if-your-storage-is-routed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=4027","title":{"rendered":"XCP-NG routed storage is less reliable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">test for routed storage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">on a host console<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">yum install traceroute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">lookup the IP of your storage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">traceroute (IP of your storage)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the output has more than 1 line\/hop, your path to the storage is routed <br>You don&#8217;t want your storage routed as it will add extra latency, and add load to your router, and if the router slows\/stops so will your VM storage.  (&amp; you will have a bad day)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by default XCP communicates outbound over the management vlan, you need an <strong>IP <\/strong>address in the <strong>storage <\/strong>network to not route through your site router<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Fix;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">on the POOL add the vlan that your storage uses, maybe label it storage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">on each HOST, network tab, find the storage vlan added above, for mode pick static, and add an IP address and netmask.   DONT add a Default Gateway or DNS    DONT as you don&#8217;t want this vlan used for management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to confirm you will need to ping the ip from something in the storage network, ie your NAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>test for routed storage: on a host console yum install traceroute lookup the IP of your storage traceroute (IP of your storage) If the output has more than 1 line\/hop,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-xcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}