Installing Truenas in VMware and a MD1420 power vault

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Setup: 3 Dell PowerEdge 740xd2 and 1 Dell PowerVault MD1420 attached to host 1

server 1 and 2 are in a VMware cluster
server 3 > VMware > datastore > truenas VM > vdisk1 and vdisk2 > vdisk 2 > pool > VMware datastore > server 1, 2, 3

goal: High availably for the VMs in production. I see that the MD14020 is just a DAS and it does not provide with multiple host functionality

and if I explained myself well enough you can see there's a scuffed implementation of truenas to provide a "HA datastore" to server 1 & 2

now I wanted to recreated it with the MD1420 and I want to be able to replace drives in the case one fails without data loss + if possible it being visible to every host.

My next course of action is creating a truenas VM on server 1 passing through the h830 raid card and it hopefully sees all the drives individually on the MD1420 (maybe I need to set it up in a special mode) then sharing that pool to the other hosts.

If anyone sees anything wrong with my plan or have a better idea please let me know

Thanks guys

 

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I just read A tiny bit about Vsans and i think that's the way to go, and just the MD1420 for back up storge ones the vsan is implemented (we also have tape backups)