That is good to know, I'll keep it in mind as I begin developing my home environment...
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote: > So far I have them that way, simply because in testing that was the > easiest, and I don’t have a Virtual Center setup that allows for vMotion > anyway L. > > > > However, I opted for OpenFiler over the easier-to-setup FreeNAS because > recent reports suggest that vMotion on OpenFiler is now supported, hence I > assume the reservation issue may be resolved. > > > > Thanks Jonathan. > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, November 20, 2009 9:30 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: OpenFiler testing... any best practices? > > > > I would suggest that the VM's accessed by each host be on separate LUN's. > OpenFiler, as of the this past may did not support SCSI-3 reservations which > can wreak some havoc with multiple ESXi hosts accessing one lun. > > > > I used it in production, successfully for over a year due to a necessity of > inheriting an ill-conceived budget from my predecessor and enduring a > probationary period of proving myself and my methodology to the firm. The > situation I Was using it in was one VM host with three guests all of which > were not at the time considered mission critical. > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Doing some testing with OpenFiler for iSCSI SAN testing. > > > > I’m presenting LUN’s via GigE links to my ESXi boxen hosting Win2K3 and > Win2K8 VM’s. > > > > So far I’m pretty impressed… and the price is right for a home network. > > > > Anybody played with it and/or have any pointers to best practices or > performances considerations? One of the things I’m wondering about > particularly is if there’s any advantages to using the Windows iSCSI > initiator as opposed to letting ESXi own the LUNs and present the storage as > local volumes to the Win boxen. > > > > Thanks. > > -sc > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
