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тАО10-21-2010 01:54 PM
тАО10-21-2010 01:54 PM
C7000 Blade access to the SB600c storage
We have a new C7000 with 5 x BL460 G6 servers, an SB600c Storage Blade, and two Flex-10 10GBe modules. We plan to use Server 2008 R2 on the BL460's to host HyperV guests.
1. How do I configure the SB600c so that all other blade servers can access its storage?
2. Assuming point 1 is possible, can I boot the guest servers off the SB600c storage blade? That is, store the Virtual Hard Drives on the SB600c and boot from that storage?
Thanks again for any input!
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тАО10-21-2010 08:24 PM
тАО10-21-2010 08:24 PM
Re: C7000 Blade access to the SB600c storage
That being said, and I am not a Hyper-V expert (no real experience at all really).. I would assume that you can access a Windows Share off of the Storage Server, or perhaps there is a way to share the storage out via iSCSI.
2. Assuming you can access the storage from all of the other servers, then yes... you should be able to boot guest servers from it.
Steven
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тАО10-22-2010 06:03 AM
тАО10-22-2010 06:03 AM
Re: C7000 Blade access to the SB600c storage
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тАО10-22-2010 10:46 AM
тАО10-22-2010 10:46 AM
Re: C7000 Blade access to the SB600c storage
Therefore the only solution in your environment maybe Virtual SAN Appliance as David write (but I have not any expirense with Virtual SAN Appliance,
we use HYPER-V cluster on BL460 G6 servers with NetApp storage (CSV access via iSCSI))
2. Assuming you use Virtual SAN Appliance or something that get you iSCSI/FC volume - yes, you will be able to boot guests from storage
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тАО10-22-2010 12:11 PM
тАО10-22-2010 12:11 PM
Re: C7000 Blade access to the SB600c storage
Igor, the NetApp looks good too but wouldn't go in favour of an HP solution as we try to stick to HP whenever possible.
Then, using the All-in-One Storage Manager on the SB600c, it should be possible to develop an iSCSI SAN? Install MS iSCSI initiator on the other blades? Or, do they need an HP-based initiator...
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тАО10-22-2010 03:24 PM
тАО10-22-2010 03:24 PM
Re: C7000 Blade access to the SB600c storage
With that said, you can still use the VSA. You would need software to run on the Storage Blade that you can run the VSA on. Microsoft and Vmware both have products to do this.
If you do not need the other functionality of the SB600c...then your other options are...
1. Setting up Hyper-V on the storage Blade itself... it will have direct access to the storage. Then you can run the VSA on the blade with minimal overhead due to other Microsoft and/or 3rd party services.
2. Install ESXi would allow you to do the same thing.. but then you have 2 different environments to manage.
Steven
HP Master ASE, Storage, Servers, and Clustering
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тАО11-08-2010 07:49 AM
тАО11-08-2010 07:49 AM
Re: C7000 Blade access to the SB600c storage
Everything you need to create an iSCSI network and offer LUN storage to the blade servers in the C7000 is contained on the SB600c.
Thanks to everyone for your input!