2010
03.12
03.12
One of the things I need to do at home is do some Hyper-V clustering. As you can guess, I have not won the lottery so a C3000 blade chassis with LeftHand storage is not on the cards. If I do get around to this it will be done on a shoestring. Here’s what I am considering:
- HP Microtower 3010 * 2: I checked and the 2.8GHz CPU has Intel-VT and DEP features.
- Intel 1GB NIC * 6: I want 4 NIC’s per host. The 3010 has 3 * PCIx1 slots.
- A Netgear 16 port GB switch.
- I’ll use an old PC as a iSCSI target.
I want Live Migration to work. 4 NIC’s (parent, private network, VM network and iSCSI) should do the trick. The total price comes in at around €1500 retail including tax.
Any opinions on a better solution?
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Rather than using an old PC as an iSCSI server I’d recommend either the QNAP TS-110 or if you can afford it the TS-119. They are single-drive iSCSI targets and work well with Hyper-V or VMware.
What did you use to make the Home PC the iSCSI target? I have been playing with Openfiler but if there is a better option?
I haven’t yet but I’d probably use Starwind.