I am considering buying a shared storage server and looking at ReadyNas possibly the 2100. Curious if anyone has any experience with ReadyNas for storing VM's and if its working well for you? I have 4-6 older Dell 1950's I'm thinking about using proxmox ve with the ReadyNas. Any experiences would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
readynas ? 2100? for VM storage
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I'm currently running/building a 1.9 proxmox farm using 5 (2 active) 1950s and a readynas 2100 4TB unit (i have a second 2100 with rsync copies of the pve nfs shares for backups). (6 VMs so far. 2 debian OpenVZ, 4 KVM (2x W2k3 and 2x W2k8 boxes)
Its currently using 1 NIC on everything and everything is working perfect, been looking at setting up HA and the 1950s have a drac card for fencing in PVE 2.0.
Its currently using 1 NIC on everything and everything is working perfect, been looking at setting up HA and the 1950s have a drac card for fencing in PVE 2.0.
I have run 2100 for a year and it worked until 2 of 4 drives failed at same time. Now i dont trust Readynas. So i have built my own nas with more disks on a Dell R510 server instead. We had 10 servers mixed win + debian and was ok load on 2100. But its really too small for big virtual employments. Testing is ok.
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How long you beer running the readynas? I was also thinking about the drac card option for HA. I've been waiting on PVE2.0. Its seems lots of people have dell 1950 around. It would be really cool to have a great setup doc on HA with the drac card. If you do it please share with me how it goes, I'll do the same. This is my first proxmox deploy, and I had 2 1950s in my lab running drdb, but then the HA version is so close( I have 6 1950s total (4 prod)), I figured why not just get some shared storage and be a little less complex and more scalable than running the drdb setup. Right now I'm looking for a cheep reliable shared storage option and i'm kind of stuck on it. I really appreciate your feedback. Anyone reading with some shared storage buying advice chime in!
Most important factor in IT is resiliance and backups - ReadyNAS software and Radynas box are great but you always have to rely on a 3rd party producing the HDDs (http://www.readynas.com/?page_id=82).
I have two ReadyNAS 2100 boxes for my production environment.
I have built SAN boxes using NexentaSTOR community version before and they have been brilliant. (Had multi ESXi servers running from 2 HP ML115s with 4 1TB WD RE3 HDDs)
As suggested by another user here, i tried http://www.OpenMediaVault.org/
It works perfect. Based on Debian Squeeze.
The R510 has H700 raidcard with 9 st 2TB disks, 8 in Raid6 + 1 hotspare, EXT3. (have also tested Raid10, but 8 disks in raid6 is pretty fast, still testing, and waiting for 10GBIT lan + 2 new 24 port Dell 10GBit switches.)
You dont see disks inside OMV so i also installed Dell's OpenManage, i now know when my drives fails next time. (has some bugs but solvable via Google)
http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/OMSA_6.5/
It works perfect. Based on Debian Squeeze.
The R510 has H700 raidcard with 9 st 2TB disks, 8 in Raid6 + 1 hotspare, EXT3. (have also tested Raid10, but 8 disks in raid6 is pretty fast, still testing, and waiting for 10GBIT lan + 2 new 24 port Dell 10GBit switches.)
You dont see disks inside OMV so i also installed Dell's OpenManage, i now know when my drives fails next time. (has some bugs but solvable via Google)
http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/deb/OMSA_6.5/