Hi,
I have Dell EMC SCv3020 Storage Array and I want to create shared storage for all 3 physical servers to use the same (LVM?) for creating KVM VMs in cluster so if 1 server dies, we can move VM to another one. We have solution for HA failover but we are not sure how to do this shared storage setup.
Should we setup simple NFS on virtual machines and share? If yes, which filesystem will be on NFS, and should we make LVM on it? Does filesystem need to be cluster aware so there is no data corruption because all servers are accessing same storage?
We also have VMware on this infrastructure using Dell storage array and production VMs on it so is it possible maybe to use VMFS vmware datastore to create like 4 VMs for Ceph and assign for example 1 TB of storage to each Ceph OSD and this way we use this shared storage on all 3 new physical servers for deploying KVM VMs all servers on same shared storage?
Hello my pleasure, it is possible that you give me an extra background of your need to help you. I can advise you on any virtual platform configuration regardless of the version. I am ex-Dell engineer.
i am linux, vmware and storage admin and since a very good understanding of this kind of solution since i was part of system integration team with strong solution provider ideas. in your case it is possible with many ways since u have shared physical storage.. please reach me if you would like to make a smooth project delivery.
8+ year of experience in EMC Storage, Zoning, VMware, LVM, Unix, Linux, KVM, I did this kind of project from MNC, so I am confident about this project.
I am Dell certified as well as have experience on SCV3020 and SCV 7020 , so I can easily do it for whatever your host operatin system whether it Linux VMware or Windows platform.