A quick one this: Yesterday, I had to shut down one of my Shuttles, running my HP StoreVirtual VSA (12.0.00.0725.0). Usually, it's not a problem as there are three nodes in the cluster and it remained up as expected, after the shut down. However, when the node came back, the storage node didn't come back automatically. [...]
In my previous post, I mentioned that I use StarWind Software's iSCSI SAN software to provide iSCSI LUNs for my home lab. In this post, I'll document the process to create a simple shared iSCSI LUN setup. Using that, one can provide as many LUNs as required to an ESXi setup, possibly with multipathing - [...]
Like all VMware techies, I have also installed shared storage in different ways, to experiment with high-availability solutions. One thing that has always bugged me is that virtual appliances providing shared storage, need to have the virtual environment running as a prerequisite. In a home lab, one might not have an external NAS box so [...]