Storage Cluster; a year in review
It has been 17 months since I deployed the Nexenta cluster for our VMware hosting platform at ipHouse. Unfortunately this post will not be positive.
It has been 17 months since I deployed the Nexenta cluster for our VMware hosting platform at ipHouse. Unfortunately this post will not be positive.
I was in Las Vegas for VMworld 2011 this past week and what a busy week it was! 20,000+ people in attendance! I met many amazing people, saw quite a few new products, I enjoyed it 100%.
It is time to add space to our VMware cluster for storage of VMs for our customers. We started initially using Compellent SAN storage. Worked well, had a lot of space, but the performance was not what I was looking for (it is all SATA based), using F/C is far more complicated than we need for this project, and just […]