hotcrandel
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I have an ESX Cluster with three hosts running HA, and I want to shuffle around some stuff on my storage, but I'm a little short on free-space.
I've run into some file locking issues where only a single hosts can RW any particular datastore with another much older storage product, causing issues. This may have been a limitation of the storage product (an older HP SAN) or user error.
I was wondering if anyone has added FreeNAS iSCSI or NFS storage to a VMware cluster with good results.
In particular I'm wondering if FreeNAS can tolerate multiple iSCSI or NFS sessions, for each member of the cluster without file locking issues.
Are there any recommended strategies (make a new data store per VM?, bigger stores with multiple VM's), iSCSI vs NFS, etc.
The hardware I will be using is probably a Core2 Era Xeon with 16/32GB RAM, 7200RPM or 10k enterprise disks and SSD caching, shared as a ZFS volume.
The VM's I'm backing up are generally dev environments and are already backed up with Veeam.
I've run into some file locking issues where only a single hosts can RW any particular datastore with another much older storage product, causing issues. This may have been a limitation of the storage product (an older HP SAN) or user error.
I was wondering if anyone has added FreeNAS iSCSI or NFS storage to a VMware cluster with good results.
In particular I'm wondering if FreeNAS can tolerate multiple iSCSI or NFS sessions, for each member of the cluster without file locking issues.
Are there any recommended strategies (make a new data store per VM?, bigger stores with multiple VM's), iSCSI vs NFS, etc.
The hardware I will be using is probably a Core2 Era Xeon with 16/32GB RAM, 7200RPM or 10k enterprise disks and SSD caching, shared as a ZFS volume.
The VM's I'm backing up are generally dev environments and are already backed up with Veeam.