Wednesday, February 25, 2015

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

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