[Cialug] What should I be asking?

[Theron Conrey]

You'll get a lot out of ESX with local storage but where it shines is when you get shared storage.  I'd highly recommend you try it at least, to get a handle on Vmotion, DRS, and HA functions.  This can be easily accomplished (for testing purposes) with another computer with lots of storage.  Just load up your distro of choice, and create some NFS (or iSCSI) mounts.  These can be added quickly to ESX.

Just a quick way for you to demo the strengths and maybe get people thinking about how to plan for shared storage.


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matt Millard
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:23 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] What should I be asking?



On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:24:39 -0500, "Theron Conrey"
<theron.conrey at dice.com> said:
> Matt,
>
> I'll assume that you're talking about using the Vmware ESX environment
> and not the free server setup and answer from there.

Yep, Vmware ESX 3.01 and installing RHEL4 ES as the quest OS.

>
> Some things to consider:         What type of storage are you using?
> Is it NFS, iSCSI or fiber?        Given the fact they're all Windows
> VM's I'll assume that you're        either an iSCSI or fiber shop.
>

Storage is all local RAID10, not shared.  These are meant to replace standalone servers or small to moderate size.
>
> Just a couple of one off things to think about prior to going down the
> road.

Thanks for the advice.  Looks like we'll be going ahead with testing and I'm sure I'll uncover other issues but still nice to hear about others experiences.

Matt
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