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    hardware support and iscsi - home clusters

    I must admit that the ability to add a third member or more is highly desirable. I'd like to buy cheaper hardware and more of it as I get more money available and when I need to upscale compute. Or even sell off older hardware if I don't need it anymore.
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    hardware support and iscsi - home clusters

    Sorry I am only familiar with vmware so I guess I mean the equivalent to the esxi server. If I can save on a hard disk in the equivalent of the esxi server then even better. Apologies for my ignorance of the product. Newbie alert please bear with me :)
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    hardware support and iscsi - home clusters

    Do you get the servers (the servers that run the hypervisors) to boot from an iscsi based lun?
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    hardware support and iscsi - home clusters

    Great advice guys. I suppose I am looking for something that is kind of 'greater than the sum of its parts'. Regarding storage back end I would really like the actual machines responsible for the hypervisors to be totally stateless so I could get another machine and distribute the vm across...
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    hardware support and iscsi - home clusters

    Hi forum, I want to create a "domestic blade product". I was thinking about using a stackable nano itx form factor that connects to a gig switch which uses a combination of boot luns (iscsi) and maybe NFS to run VMs. I need to get hardware together .. Cost being the driving factor. Anyone tried...