Software SAN sanity check.

I had a Xeon quad core based entry level server with 12GB RAM on which i install a RAID5 based Disk controller with 3 SATA 7200 rpm based Hard drives.
Then i installed 3 additional Gigabit Ethernet cards along with Windows 2012 Standard Server.

Formatted the 2TB single partition with the new resilient file system.

After the server was ready i enabled iSCSI Target with nic teaming. hosted the VHD virtual disks on the ReFS partition and serve the SAN Targets to Hyper-V host.

Although everything is running smooth as i have now hosted 4 Virtual Machines on it still i think that their is something lacking here as i plan to move more VMs on this so i tough i ask your say on this . Please do guide me as everything i did was on my own without any consultancy what so ever.  :-)

Thank you

March 13th, 2014 8:22am

Hi,

For the iSCSI redundancy or high ability you cant use the NIC teaming, the iSCSI type storage use the MPIO as the high ability method.

More information:

Multipath I/O Overview

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725907.aspx

Hope this helps.

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March 18th, 2014 3:57am

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