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03-21-2019 07:26 AM
03-21-2019 07:26 AM
HP MSA 2040 Seperating VMDK storage from NSA (iSCSI) storage
Hi,
I present storage from my 2040 to my esxi hosts - they then mount it as a datastore.
I then build VMs on that datastore. The local disks on that datastore are vmdk local storage. (For example the C: is a vmdk)
However, some of my VM's require iSCSI their own storage. (For example the S: drive is an iSCSI drive).
I was thinking of doing the following. Pool A is reserved for VMDK storage (SSD disks)
Pool B is reserved for the NAS (iSCSI) storage for the VM's (SSD disks).
Is that a good way to go about it?
ta.
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03-22-2019 09:08 AM
03-22-2019 09:08 AM
Re: HP MSA 2040 Seperating VMDK storage from NSA (iSCSI) storage
Hi,
MSA is a block level device, thus it is assigning block to a VMDK filesystem or being used as ISCSI direct storage.
Therefore , from MSA perspective , you can use them either way.
Having one pool assigned to VMDK and other to ISCSI storage is also fine, there is nothing wrong in doing it.
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