Storage Cluster for vmware
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June 17, 2019, 9:10 pmQuote from admin on June 17, 2019, 9:10 pmwe do not support virtualized environments. It should work but will probably not give good performance.
one thing to watch for, is esxi will mess up the interface ordering on the pci bus, i think this happens when adding the 4th interface, so all the ethX order will not match the order you added the virtual nics, double check the mac addresses t match the esxi nics to the linux ethernet names, the blue node console menu allows you to view and change the order. if this is setup correctly and you configure your esxi virtual swicthes ..etc then things should work, also check if you have vlans it needs to match the esxi vlan ids (or easier not to use). you can ssh to vms, login as root with password assigned to cluster.
after you get it working, you need to make sure you assign enough cpu and ram resources, each osd requires 4 GB, your iSCSI ideally requites 16 GB, please check the hardware guide. Also try to use physical disks using pci passthrough to get good performance, and see how to bump the io queue depth so the vms is not limited in io.
we do not support virtualized environments. It should work but will probably not give good performance.
one thing to watch for, is esxi will mess up the interface ordering on the pci bus, i think this happens when adding the 4th interface, so all the ethX order will not match the order you added the virtual nics, double check the mac addresses t match the esxi nics to the linux ethernet names, the blue node console menu allows you to view and change the order. if this is setup correctly and you configure your esxi virtual swicthes ..etc then things should work, also check if you have vlans it needs to match the esxi vlan ids (or easier not to use). you can ssh to vms, login as root with password assigned to cluster.
after you get it working, you need to make sure you assign enough cpu and ram resources, each osd requires 4 GB, your iSCSI ideally requites 16 GB, please check the hardware guide. Also try to use physical disks using pci passthrough to get good performance, and see how to bump the io queue depth so the vms is not limited in io.
Pages: 1 2
Storage Cluster for vmware
admin
2,930 Posts
Quote from admin on June 17, 2019, 9:10 pmwe do not support virtualized environments. It should work but will probably not give good performance.
one thing to watch for, is esxi will mess up the interface ordering on the pci bus, i think this happens when adding the 4th interface, so all the ethX order will not match the order you added the virtual nics, double check the mac addresses t match the esxi nics to the linux ethernet names, the blue node console menu allows you to view and change the order. if this is setup correctly and you configure your esxi virtual swicthes ..etc then things should work, also check if you have vlans it needs to match the esxi vlan ids (or easier not to use). you can ssh to vms, login as root with password assigned to cluster.
after you get it working, you need to make sure you assign enough cpu and ram resources, each osd requires 4 GB, your iSCSI ideally requites 16 GB, please check the hardware guide. Also try to use physical disks using pci passthrough to get good performance, and see how to bump the io queue depth so the vms is not limited in io.
we do not support virtualized environments. It should work but will probably not give good performance.
one thing to watch for, is esxi will mess up the interface ordering on the pci bus, i think this happens when adding the 4th interface, so all the ethX order will not match the order you added the virtual nics, double check the mac addresses t match the esxi nics to the linux ethernet names, the blue node console menu allows you to view and change the order. if this is setup correctly and you configure your esxi virtual swicthes ..etc then things should work, also check if you have vlans it needs to match the esxi vlan ids (or easier not to use). you can ssh to vms, login as root with password assigned to cluster.
after you get it working, you need to make sure you assign enough cpu and ram resources, each osd requires 4 GB, your iSCSI ideally requites 16 GB, please check the hardware guide. Also try to use physical disks using pci passthrough to get good performance, and see how to bump the io queue depth so the vms is not limited in io.