I haven’t forgotten about my promise to post a how-to on doing an Active/Active iSCSI VMware setup.
I’m in the process of aquiring all of the hardware I need and will do the write up as I’m installing and configuring that environment.
ETA is mid January. If you would like a copy of my notes in the mean time please visit the contact page and drop me a note (or leave a comment).
Over the next few weeks I’ll be writing a how-to for setting up an Active/Active iSCSI storage solution for VMware ESX.
My solution will entail:
2xiSCSI servers running CentOS 5.x, DRBD 8.3, ietd 1.4.19
2xVMware ESXi Boxes
vCenter
The goal is to setup a infrastructure that will survive everything except a simeloutanous power ouage at my house. In theory I should be able to take either any of the boxes down for maintenance without having to shut my VMs down. That is probably my biggest annoyance about my setup at home – the need to shutdown everything down to patch.
I’m in the process of constructing the environment with VMs to proof it out.
I am pretty confident that this will work – I just want to proof it out before dropping $$$ on storage.
Inspiration for this: