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Is it posible to set up Petasan as single node SAN?

Idon't need / want three nodes cluster. I have two VMware 6 hosts and want to give them common storage.

Is it possible with Petasan or should I keep on searching

 

regards

If you want a single storage node, you may be interested in FreeNAS and Openfiler, they have good iSCSI support.

Theoretically you can run 3 PetaSAN nodes virtualized in a single host, but it is meant to be used in a scale out way and will not give good performance in  a single node installation.

Ok, I understand.

I have already tried a a lot of other solutions, but still searching for "right one". From what I have seen Peta SAN has a very nice and intuitive GUI, but is unfortunately too much for my needs.

I don't quite understand why it would not perform well on the single node, when all the other solutions do, but you certainly have you reasons.

Thanks again.

Best regards

 

Quote from admin on September 26, 2017, 10:55 am

If you want a single storage node, you may be interested in FreeNAS and Openfiler, they have good iSCSI support.

Theoretically you can run 3 PetaSAN nodes virtualized in a single host, but it is meant to be used in a scale out way and will not give good performance in  a single node installation.

Using PetaSAN in single mode is not possibile or it make no sense?

I mean: if I want to use the sharing features (iSCSI/NFS) and WebGUI of PetaSAN on already redundant storage (RAID Controller), can I?

You can, it is just that its advantage is to offer scale out storage, this is what it does best. Sure it will work virtualized in a single host server with raid storage.