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Hyper-Converged setup


shulemmosko
33 Posts
June 26, 2020, 4:53 am

Hi Admin.

First of all thank you for the work you guys are putting in to this project, I hope to be able to contribute in the future.

As an IT service provider our company wants to build a private/public cloud

Our objectives are

  1. to implement a Hyper converged design
  2. high availability
  3. highly scalable
  4. high performance
  5. Not to have extra stand alone servers
  6. Install Openstack or Cloudstack on top of it

-----So here is our conceptual design-----

We have 3 identical servers with the following specs

  • 2x E5-2697 v3
  • 128Gb RAM
  • 2x 200Gb ssd for hyper-v server
  • 4x 1920Gb sas ssd for OSD's
  • 2x melanox connectx-4 NIC cards with 2 40Gb connections each
  • 2x 10Gb nic
  • 2x 1Gb nic

I am going to install hyper-v server on all 3 servers (2x 200gb ssd) and creating a fail-over cluster

Im installing PetaSAN on each Hyper-v as a VM and saving the VM on the local 200gb ssd's

then use the 4 1920Gb sas ssd's for the OSD's

Question

Is there a way to to export smb3 to the hyper-v hosts instead of multi-path iscsi? for hyper-v fail-over clustering?

Does this setup make sense?

 

Input and advice will greatly be appreciated. Thanks!

-Shulem

 

#1

admin
2,930 Posts
June 26, 2020, 6:37 am

No, the SMB 3 support in Samba  ( Linux SMB server ) is not complete and does not provide necessary additions in SMB v3 to support storage for hyper-v.  It works well as a scalable share to Windows clients but not for hyper-v usage.

For hyper-v : you can use iSCSI directly or create a SMB3 SOFS using Windows Servers fronting PetaSAN iSCSI disks, we have documentation guides for both setups.

we do not test running hyper converged setups.

 

#2

shulemmosko
33 Posts
July 3, 2020, 5:00 pm

Ok I got my 3 PetaSAN Nodes setup on Hyper-v and everything is working until i try to format the Iscsi drive on windows the drive initializes ok but will not format.

I rebuilt the Cluster a few times with different settings etc, same thing it will not format the drive to ntfs or refs.

Any suggestions where i might gone wrong?

Thank you!!

#3