Ryan Messner
Cadet
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- Jan 3, 2017
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So I'm totally reworking our virtual and storage environments and we're small enough that I can run most everything I need on two pools by using 2x 2TB Intel P3500's
Currently we use iSCSI over teamed 4x1GbE to connect ESXi hosts and spinning disks on an Equallogic, let's be honest it's hot garbage.
In the process of the refresh, I feel like given our size and for the performance gains, it's better to use the NVMe locally and replicate to off site.
I've done some reading about NFS vs iSCSI with VMFS but every application I've encountered focuses on LAN bandwidth constraints and ensuing CPU overhead, etc. which has led me to this: If I set these guys up to run NFS and put VMFS on top of (next to) it, am I going to regret it? Or are those pitfalls strictly due to
For simplicity's sake, I want to add these P3500's to FreeNAS purely for the sake of replication and then have them mounted in ESXi to run VDI's and Servers. I then to back up my pools (if you can call them that) over WAN to the DR site.
Potentially stupid followup question if iSCSI is truly the way to go, can I map PCIe devices internally via iSCSI?
Currently we use iSCSI over teamed 4x1GbE to connect ESXi hosts and spinning disks on an Equallogic, let's be honest it's hot garbage.
In the process of the refresh, I feel like given our size and for the performance gains, it's better to use the NVMe locally and replicate to off site.
I've done some reading about NFS vs iSCSI with VMFS but every application I've encountered focuses on LAN bandwidth constraints and ensuing CPU overhead, etc. which has led me to this: If I set these guys up to run NFS and put VMFS on top of (next to) it, am I going to regret it? Or are those pitfalls strictly due to
For simplicity's sake, I want to add these P3500's to FreeNAS purely for the sake of replication and then have them mounted in ESXi to run VDI's and Servers. I then to back up my pools (if you can call them that) over WAN to the DR site.
Potentially stupid followup question if iSCSI is truly the way to go, can I map PCIe devices internally via iSCSI?