NFS and ISCSI using ip hash load balance policy

Question

As i know all these days that the best practice for iscsi is to use single nic and one standby with " route based port id" ButI have seen in a client placethat NFS and iscsi are configured to use"route based ip hash" and multiple nic and it has been working all these days. i can not see that iscsi does multi path there.I was told by the sys admin that it is ok to use that since the both protocol are configured in same storage and it does not make sense to separate it ,his explanation that if we want separate policy then use separate storage that is one for nfs and other for iscsi, i do not buy that, i might be wrong.He pointed his link below saying that you can use ip hash.http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalI....Is it ok to use " route based ip hash for iscsi as on the link?
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Answer 1

When you create your uplink port profile you simply use the auto channel command in your config:
channel-group auto mode on
This will create a static etherchannel when two or more ports are added to the uplink port profile from the same host.  Assuming your upstream switch config is still set to "mode on" for the etherchannel config, there's nothing to change.
Regards,
Robert