Migrate Vmware cached iSCSI (Netapp) storage to Proxmox

[theuken]

We're currently preparing to migrate our Vmware environment to Proxmox.
The bulk of our storage is based on large Netapp iSCSI targets (multi-path) using Virtucache on the ESXi hosts (SSD cache read/write) to accelerate.
Performance, stability & reliability is excellent.

Now the question is how we can implement this with Proxmox (ZFS over iSCSI ?) keeping the existing Netapp SCSI storage and - most important - the SSD cache.
Rebuilding the storages with a new FS and moving the data would be possible.
Unfortunately Virtunet Systems still hasn't realized that they're riding a dead horse, so there won't be a Virtucache port for Proxmox.

Any ideas & suggestions are very welcome !

 

[bbgeek17]

Hi @theuken , welcome to the forum.

Now the question is how we can implement this with Proxmox (ZFS over iSCSI ?)

You cant. Netapp is not a suitable target for ZFS/iSCSI scheme.

I am not familiar with Virtucache, so cant provide any advice there.

The out-of-the-box solution is to use LVM with iSCSI. You may find this article helpful for that: https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-lvm-shared-storage/

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