Hello Richard,
Cisco doesn’t have anything similar to the TS-859U-RP. That’s
an excellent unit. Other comment is disable EVERYTHING but iSCSI (e.g. Network
Services & Application Servers). And recommend you test the unit for 1-2 months
before you go into production including rebooting it a few times to insure all
HDs are proper detected on reboot. My normal testing is to put a lot of load on
the hardware & monitor it (ping every 5 seconds 24/7 and make sure it doesn’t
drop packets even on load).
Good luck,
-Ben
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1
Doh!
I just ordered a TS-859U-RP+ and 9 drives (on the supported list) from Newegg
yesterday.
Thank you very much for the information and thoughtful review. I might order a
smaller unit as a spare for emergencies.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Ben Serebin
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello Richard,
I have 5 different models of QNAPs all running iSCSI from ESXi.
I run VMs directing from them and use others for storage LUNs and while QNAP is
rock solid, I would NOT recommend QNAP in a production VM running environment
unless you’re willing to deal with a 1 week RMA process with no Advance RMA
options. Outside of this, performance is excellent when you separate interfaces
and VLAN it. My concern is support, since I had 1 unit experience NIC issues,
and it was a real challenge to get them to swap the unit. Having said that,
Cisco sells rebranded QNAPs (3-4 different models) and offers proper business
support. If you want to deploy this right, buy via Cisco. Also, make sure you
hard drives you buy are on the QNAP compatibility list.
Rebranded QNAPs from Cisco
http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/solutions/small_business/products/storage/nss300/index.html
Good luck,
-Ben
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 2:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1
Anyone using a QNAP device as an iSCSI target in a VMware ESX 4.1 production
environment? Any experiences you can share?
On a related note, I'm thinking of adding some iSCSI datastores in addition to
the ones already presented via FC from my EVA. Any reason that's not a good
idea? We have a number of VMs that don't have significant I/O requirements
(think WSUS servers and the like) that I'm thinking of moving off of the
expensive storage to an inexpensive iSCSI solution such as a QNAP array.
Thanks,
RS
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