Hi, I'd appreciate any advice on how to make use/configure two PowerEdge 2850s with a PowerVault PV220s. Both machines have two PERC4/DC cards, which presumably gives me some configuration flexibility on the storage.
I was thinking (conceptually) of building a VMWare ESXi environment out of them to replace the two-dozen Sun SparcStation 20/Ultra 1/Ultra 10 boxes that are dying to be replaced. (or they're just dying anyway, seeing how three has died in a week) I know, the PV220s is not a true SAN, which means no Vmotion for me. I'm thinking of a split-bus configuration and each of the 2850's will have a piece of the storage. Then I'll just duplicate the VMs so both 2850s runs the same VMs on the PV220s and call it a day. This should get me "high availability" and "redundancy" without too much work. Could someone confirm if this is possible ? If you're already doing it, were there any pitfalls that you've experienced ? Is there a better way to use/configure this combo of hardware ? Thanks in advance, Derek _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
