> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich > > We have some new Dell rack servers running new installs of ESX 5.5 U1, > and looking to buy a redundant server to use as a backup for the > primary.
It sounds like you are using storage actually inside the server? I am surprised. Here is how I like to do it: I'm using openindiana for ZFS storage server serving out iscsi, but really *anything* that exports iscsi and can do snapshots & replication would work fine. Nexenta and so forth would be good solutions. Then you get N+1 diskless boxes to be the ESX servers. If any head fails, you just start the failed VM's on a different head. If the storage server fails, you just make the backup server the primary, and restart all the heads. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
