If anyone wants to know in detail about Windows Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming (LBFO) deployment and management, please refer this link.
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www.microsoft.com
Reference :
www.microsoft.com
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Implementing storage cluster - Open-E DSS V7 Active-Passive iSCSI SAN Failover Cluster
The setup that I used for this implementation is mentioned below :
-Two DELL PowerEdge R710 servers (ESXI01 and ESXI02)
-Implemented Open-E DSS V7 Active-Passive iSCSI Failover Cluster – using two VSA’s running on different ESXI 5.5 hosts
- Created VM and installed Open-E Node A on ESXI01
- Created VM and installed Open-E Node B on ESXI02
- Configured separate network interfaces for heartbeat, volume replication and WEB GUI management
- Configured a vSwitch on both ESXI hosts (ESXI01 and ESXI02)
- Added direct point-to-point connection between the above two ESXI hosts for reliable volume replication
- Configured iSCSI volumes and targets on Node A and Node B
- Configured replication task
- Configured failover cluster with multiple auxiliary paths
- Configured virtual target IP address
- Added target to cluster
- Configured iSCSI initiator
- Tested failover and failback functions successfully
Note :
Detailed configuration guide is given in Open-E website itself
Implementing HA storage cluster - Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active Load Balancing iSCSI HA SAN cluster
The setup that I used for this implementation is mentioned below :
-Two DELL PowerEdge R710 servers (ESXI01 and ESXI02)
-Implemented Open-E DSS V7 Active-Active iSCSI HA SAN Cluster – using two VSA’s running on different ESXI 5.5 hosts
-In Active-Active mode, both nodes of the cluster will simultaneously run volumes providing high availability of data-Overall cluster performance will be improved compared to Active-Passive mode since the read, write and replication traffic can be balanced on both nodes
-Open-E cluster nodes :
- Node A1 on ESXI01
- Node B1 on ESXI02
- Configured separate network interfaces for heartbeat, volume replication and WEB GUI management
- Added direct point-to-point connection between the above two ESX hosts for reliable volume replication
- Configured iSCSI volumes and targets on Node A1 and Node B1
- Configured replication tasks and failover cluster with multiple auxiliary paths
- Configured virtual target IP address and added targets to cluster
- Started cluster
Note :
Detailed configuration guide is given in Open-E website itself