Question about using iSCSI nas with Vbox VM's
Posted: 14. Feb 2012, 20:36
Hello,
I'd like to understand better how I would use an iSCSI NAS like a QNAP 879 to host our VM's.
The QNAP 879 could have two raid arrays on it so I could have a Raid 10 (4 drives) and Raid 1 (2 drives) with a hot spare ready if either array needed it. There could be one more single drive available as well if I wanted to use it I suppose.
So my thought is to create the two raid arrays and create two luns from each array and present these two luns to our two Dell Poweredge Servers. I would put into each Lun our VM's (we have 10 VM's so each Lun would hold 5 VM's) I've created the VM's with a vdi drive so in each Lun I would have 5 folders for each VM's .vdi. Only one of our Servers would run the VM's (we do not have the servers clustered) so I don't have to worry about both servers colliding with writing to the VM's at the same time.
I would make sure that both Servers VirttualBox would have the configs for all 10 VM's.
In the event we have trouble with our Primary Server running our VM's (server goes down). I could run the VM's from our second Poweredge Server. It would be a manual failover I would manage.
Would this work for our Small Business? Please let me know what I'm missed or misunderstood with how to use our NAS device.
Thank you.
I'd like to understand better how I would use an iSCSI NAS like a QNAP 879 to host our VM's.
The QNAP 879 could have two raid arrays on it so I could have a Raid 10 (4 drives) and Raid 1 (2 drives) with a hot spare ready if either array needed it. There could be one more single drive available as well if I wanted to use it I suppose.
So my thought is to create the two raid arrays and create two luns from each array and present these two luns to our two Dell Poweredge Servers. I would put into each Lun our VM's (we have 10 VM's so each Lun would hold 5 VM's) I've created the VM's with a vdi drive so in each Lun I would have 5 folders for each VM's .vdi. Only one of our Servers would run the VM's (we do not have the servers clustered) so I don't have to worry about both servers colliding with writing to the VM's at the same time.
I would make sure that both Servers VirttualBox would have the configs for all 10 VM's.
In the event we have trouble with our Primary Server running our VM's (server goes down). I could run the VM's from our second Poweredge Server. It would be a manual failover I would manage.
Would this work for our Small Business? Please let me know what I'm missed or misunderstood with how to use our NAS device.
Thank you.