iSCSI LUN reuse
Hi all I'm planning to connect an HYPER-V 2012 Server to an iSCSI LUN configured on my NAS (QNAP TS-469-U) so the virtual machine files will be on my NAS If my server crashes is it possible to "reuse"...
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Yes it is. iSCSI luns are connected via the IQN so make sure you have the IQN of both hosts. Should you need to have the LUN see my the second host you can UNMAP it from the first then map it to the...
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Quite note: Connecting via iSCSI makes your QNAP your SAN, not your NAS. SAN v NAS is defined by use, not hardware, and the use here is SAN.
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What you are looking to do with iSCSI and LUN "reuse" is perfectly fine. In fact, you can have multiple HyperV hosts connected to the same LUN as well. This is a sharing feature built into HyperV...
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I'm with Scott. What happens with the QNAP dies. Random discovery of the day. Synology does HA mirroring/failover. Bad news is CF takeovers are worse than a Netapp (185 Seconds?) and failover can...
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John773 wrote: I'm with Scott. What happens with the QNAP dies. He means WHEN it dies. Which singe the QNAP is far more fragile on its own than the server AND it has the drives is easily twice as...
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John773 wrote: Random discovery of the day. Synology does HA mirroring/failover. Someone had written about that a few weeks ago. There is someone in the community using it. Don't know how well it...
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I have a QNAP in a similar setup, and so far it's been OK, BUT... After reading many discussions here about storage, I bought a new server with lots of internal storage (OBR10), and I'm going to move...
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Matt Bartle wrote: I have a QNAP in a similar setup, and so far it's been OK, BUT... After reading many discussions here about storage, I bought a new server with lots of internal storage (OBR10), and...
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Matt Bartle wrote: I have a QNAP in a similar setup, and so far it's been OK, BUT... After reading many discussions here about storage, I bought a new server with lots of internal storage (OBR10), and...
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Nazih,It's not massive - we're a small operation. It's a Dell PowerEdge R420 with a couple of Xeon processors, 32GB RAM and 2TB NL-SAS storage. It can easily run 4 VM's, which is all I need it to do.
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