can i add more backend nics to petasan cluster?
minibear
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December 18, 2021, 9:04 amQuote from minibear on December 18, 2021, 9:04 amI have a home lab builded with vsphere and freenas. There are 10 to 20 vms in vsphere and 2 freenas nodes, one node is for main iscsi storage and the other is for replication node. The hardware spec like these:
esxi server:
2 cpu, 32g ram, no hdd, 6* gb nics
freenas:
2 cpu, 16g ram, 4T*4 sas hdd, 6 * gb nics
If the main freenas failed, i need to manual switch the backup nas to work and restart the vms. So i want to use these servers to build a storage cluster by petasan to work with the vsphere.
I want to use 2 nics for iscsi and 1 nic for gui. Can i use 2 or 3 gb nics as backend interface when i build the petasan cluster? In the pdf, it seems always use 1.
I have a home lab builded with vsphere and freenas. There are 10 to 20 vms in vsphere and 2 freenas nodes, one node is for main iscsi storage and the other is for replication node. The hardware spec like these:
esxi server:
2 cpu, 32g ram, no hdd, 6* gb nics
freenas:
2 cpu, 16g ram, 4T*4 sas hdd, 6 * gb nics
If the main freenas failed, i need to manual switch the backup nas to work and restart the vms. So i want to use these servers to build a storage cluster by petasan to work with the vsphere.
I want to use 2 nics for iscsi and 1 nic for gui. Can i use 2 or 3 gb nics as backend interface when i build the petasan cluster? In the pdf, it seems always use 1.
admin
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December 18, 2021, 12:53 pmQuote from admin on December 18, 2021, 12:53 pmYou can use more than 1 NIC, from the UI you can bond NICs then you assign bonds/interfaces to networks. Note that 1G interfaces will be really slow, bonding will increase total throughput but latency will not improve.
You can use more than 1 NIC, from the UI you can bond NICs then you assign bonds/interfaces to networks. Note that 1G interfaces will be really slow, bonding will increase total throughput but latency will not improve.
Last edited on December 18, 2021, 12:53 pm by admin · #2
can i add more backend nics to petasan cluster?
minibear
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Quote from minibear on December 18, 2021, 9:04 amI have a home lab builded with vsphere and freenas. There are 10 to 20 vms in vsphere and 2 freenas nodes, one node is for main iscsi storage and the other is for replication node. The hardware spec like these:
esxi server:
2 cpu, 32g ram, no hdd, 6* gb nics
freenas:
2 cpu, 16g ram, 4T*4 sas hdd, 6 * gb nics
If the main freenas failed, i need to manual switch the backup nas to work and restart the vms. So i want to use these servers to build a storage cluster by petasan to work with the vsphere.
I want to use 2 nics for iscsi and 1 nic for gui. Can i use 2 or 3 gb nics as backend interface when i build the petasan cluster? In the pdf, it seems always use 1.
I have a home lab builded with vsphere and freenas. There are 10 to 20 vms in vsphere and 2 freenas nodes, one node is for main iscsi storage and the other is for replication node. The hardware spec like these:
esxi server:
2 cpu, 32g ram, no hdd, 6* gb nics
freenas:
2 cpu, 16g ram, 4T*4 sas hdd, 6 * gb nics
If the main freenas failed, i need to manual switch the backup nas to work and restart the vms. So i want to use these servers to build a storage cluster by petasan to work with the vsphere.
I want to use 2 nics for iscsi and 1 nic for gui. Can i use 2 or 3 gb nics as backend interface when i build the petasan cluster? In the pdf, it seems always use 1.
admin
2,930 Posts
Quote from admin on December 18, 2021, 12:53 pmYou can use more than 1 NIC, from the UI you can bond NICs then you assign bonds/interfaces to networks. Note that 1G interfaces will be really slow, bonding will increase total throughput but latency will not improve.
You can use more than 1 NIC, from the UI you can bond NICs then you assign bonds/interfaces to networks. Note that 1G interfaces will be really slow, bonding will increase total throughput but latency will not improve.